Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peace did not reign for long as he provoked the ultimate chop for himself by one day taking his scissors to all of the models ' heads and cropping them . |
| 2 | George locked the baggage car door behind us and we stood again in the quiet horse car which looked homely and friendly with the horses ' heads poking forward over the doors . |
| 3 | Foaming liquid sprayed above the dancers ' heads and fell to the floor with the dry rattle of earth sprinkled on wood . |
| 4 | Fears that the staging might be a little too picturesque are quickly dispelled as realistic dummies drop from the ceiling on ropes and dangle above the actors ' heads . |
| 5 | Indeed , the team was so anxious to give recognition at last to the importance of the content of any particular drama , that it seems almost to be reinforcing the dualistic assumption that drama is about attitudes or ideas in the children 's heads to be explored and then expressed through the medium . |
| 6 | It is from a fissure in the anthill that the rays of light from the jewels in the Cobras ' heads shine forth , and coming in contact with the rainclouds , which represent the ‘ pure water of wisdom ’ , they form the rainbow . |
| 7 | The masks , however , were specially constructed — made from heavy-duty , vulcanised rubber and fitted by stretching them over the actors ' heads so that they clamped underneath the nose and at the back of the crown . |
| 8 | A boy dangled a paper lantern over the dancers ' heads , a globe of pleated paper with a lit candle inside , bobbing at the end of a pole , a second moon . |
| 9 | In 1983 , Pilkingtons management bypassed stalled central negotiations to install new plant-specific negotiating procedures over the unions ' heads . |
| 10 | Then the chains on some passes were too short to pass over the wearers ' heads : they were getting longer chains in . |
| 11 | It seemed like a huge sword of Damocles hanging over the sprinters ' heads . |
| 12 | The price on the Roses ' heads seems to swell almost daily . |
| 13 | The price on the Roses ' heads seems to swell almost daily . |
| 14 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 15 | However , sexual history records remarkable cases of feminine pubic hair that has grown to be longer than the hair on the owners ' heads . |
| 16 | The sun was high in the sky and beating down on the mourners ' heads . |
| 17 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 18 | There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads . |
| 19 | Moreover , as the National Union of Teachers argues in response to the White Paper Teaching Quality , the basis of and variation between different HMI ratings of teacher competence is not made clear ; and interestingly , these ratings ( formed on the basis of only two observations per teacher ) , are less generous than those provided by the teachers ' heads . |