Example sentences of "[pron] head [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come on , ’ I said , jerking my head towards the HQ sign . |
| 2 | I got up , staggered to the window and , while keeping my head below the level of the sill , attempted to close it . |
| 3 | I heard Daffodil 's voice before I saw her , so that when Filmer came past the door of the bar I was bending down with my head below the counter as if to be tidying things there . |
| 4 | I went over to the bed , climbed on top of it , put my head on the pillow and fell asleep . |
| 5 | ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa . |
| 6 | I came down with quite a thud , and hit my head on the stair post . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 8 | ’ ’ I 'm sure I 'm going to leave the ground and float up and hit my head on the ceiling , and all the time the voices are call ‘ DO IT DO IT DO IT … ’ |
| 9 | It hit me and I fell , cutting my head on the door . |
| 10 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 11 | I dribbled , I wet my pants , even banged my head on the furniture , and bawled … bawled almost nonstop . |
| 12 | ‘ All right , so it 's my head on the block , ’ Manville conceded . |
| 13 | Saying this lays my head on the block , because the modern climber is much better at small hold pulling and on jamming cracks , thrutchy chimneys and greasy grooves , than I am . |
| 14 | I rested my head on the glass , and up went a pigeon . |
| 15 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 16 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 17 | He says I hit my head on the ashtray . |
| 18 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 19 | I work straight out of my head onto the canvas . |
| 20 | I work straight out of my head onto the canvas . |
| 21 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 22 | Why put my head into the bear 's jaws before I have to ? |
| 23 | He rams my head into the mud while he grabs his handgun . |
| 24 | But I was an alien being in a green screen world , lost , weeping with rage and frustration , cuffing the poor old computer , banging my head off the keyboard . |
| 25 | I slid awkwardly across to the bathroom and hung my head over the lavatory-pan . |
| 26 | During my attacks , I had to lie face down , with my head over the side of the bed . |
| 27 | I pushed my head over the parapet . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd better go and put my head under the shower and make use of some conditioner . |
| 29 | I put my head under the blanket , but it was no use . |
| 30 | And if she came up and thought I had n't washed properly she would push my head under the water and hold it there . |