Example sentences of "at the head " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A huge local family came in as she was drinking coffee , and suddenly there were voices and laughter as they arranged the stately grandmother at the head of the table , the boisterous children banished to the other end . |
| 2 | They had walked by Murlaggan at the head of the loch and up Glen Pean . |
| 3 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 4 | Cardiff–based single–car unit No 55032 carrying the dragon and red ‘ V ’ of Provincial 's Welsh ‘ Valley Lines ’ is seen near Porth at the head of a Barry Island to Treherbert train on 15 August 1985 . |
| 5 | At the head of the valley we reached a tiny settlement and stopped to ask the way . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly the choice of ‘ Great Views ’ is a very personal one and many favourites are missing , including my own cherished ones of the Cuillins from Elgol or the summit of Sgurr na Stri at the entrance to Loch Coruisk , or Rannoch Moor seen from Buachaille Etive Mor at the head of Glen Coe . |
| 7 | It is the more remarkable that Pound , no more than any one else for fifty years after Hardy died , pondered the Virgilian epigraph that Hardy put at the head of his ‘ Poems of 1912–13 ’ , originally in Satires of Circumstance , ( London , 1914 ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Mr Pozsgay did at least emerge from his six-year stint at the head of the ministry as a man who deserved credit for trying . |
| 9 | Airdrie , managed by that most travelled of forwards , Jimmy Bone , showed far too much physical prowess for MacLeod 's men at Somerset Park , and a 3-1 win maintains the Broomfield challenge at the head of the division . |
| 10 | His orders were obeyed by more than 450 competitors but about 30 — they were apparently reluctant to lose their position at the head of the race - steeplechased over the two closed barriers and carried on running . |
| 11 | Ackerley himself marches at the head of this file of memorialists . |
| 12 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 13 | If there was time , a roughly made cross was placed at the head of the dead soldier holding his beret or steel helmet . |
| 14 | I would just rather march at the head of the unit as I have done on many other occasions . ’ |
| 15 | The first two graves were one behind the other in a ditch , with a rough cross stuck into the ground at the head of each grave . |
| 16 | Twenty minutes later I was at the head of the queue . |
| 17 | It was the Office of Woods and Forests which offered the RAF the site at the head of the Whitehall Stairs on Victoria Embankment , and the Memorial Fund gratefully accepted the offer . |
| 18 | On 19 July 1955 he walked barefoot across the sands of Northumbria to Holy Island , at the head of 3,000 people . |
| 19 | He was advised not to overstay his tenure at the head of Esso in unusual circumstances . |
| 20 | He felt the contact was so invaluable that he was prepared to turn down the job at the head of one of the UK 's premier blue-chip companies if it meant making such a sacrifice . |
| 21 | Place Barn , Wilmington , Polegate , East Sussex Place Barn , Wilmington , is flint-walled barn which was formerly attached to Priory Farm at the head of the hill that leads out of the village to the South Downs . |
| 22 | The residual top section of glass within the arched section at the head of each window was replaced by a panel of glass directly bedded in the stonework . |
| 23 | ‘ A rare meeting , and you , dear sister , ’ he turned to Omi , ‘ will be at the head of the table with me ! ’ |
| 24 | Davis was the worst sort of person to have at the head of a monopolistic company . |
| 25 | Bobby Robson 's team , having been seeded at the head of Group F , will play their three first-round matches in Cagliari on the island of Sardinia . |
| 26 | Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph . |
| 27 | Bobby Robson 's team , having been seeded at the head of Group F , will play their three first-round matches in Cagliari on the island of Sardinia . |
| 28 | Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph . |
| 29 | Admiral Scowcroft 's visit at the head of a senior delegation including the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , seemed to offer China 's leadership a face saving way to patch up its rift with Washington , with whom China 's relations have been at their lowest ebb since Mr Nixon 's trail-blazing 1972 trip to Beijing . |
| 30 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |