Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] head [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She sipped some of the water , and allowed Breeze to bathe her head with the rest , before putting butter on the burnt arm . |
| 32 | Shawn Taylor getting his head onto the end of Hoddle 's high ball . |
| 33 | Portsmouth 's best chance came in the sixty fourth minute , a great breakaway down the left , the cross coming in , seventeen goal man Guy Whittingham getting his head to the ball , but it was n't going to be his eighteenth goal of the season , because Ken Vasey dived to his right , just got his finger tips to the ball and held on to it and the chance had gone . |
| 34 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 35 | Thiercelin jerked his head to the right . |
| 36 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 37 | Ralph poked his head into the living room . |
| 38 | As soon as the handler had left , the Brigadier poked his head round the door . |
| 39 | When a quarter of an hour had passed the Brigadier poked his head round the door , wondering if the Captain had gone off somewhere , it was so quiet . |
| 40 | But Lee banged his head against the shed even harder . |
| 41 | The chainsword rose again , and fell , and Defries ducked her head as the speeder suddenly banked and sliced through the air only a metre from where she lay . |
| 42 | There was a familiarity to it , but — Paige turned her head on the pillow as a band of light , growing wider , spread over the carpet . |
| 43 | Hearing a knock , Miranda turned her head to the door as the housekeeper entered ; she carried a Victorian brass birdcage , in which was a dove . |
| 44 | Lee turned her head to the right to look down at him . |
| 45 | Seb nodded his head towards the drawing-room . |
| 46 | The policeman stuck his head through the opened window and examined Jimmy as if he was some strange zoological specimen . |
| 47 | Willie craned his head over the counter and watched him measuring and cutting two rolls of grey and navy flannel . |
| 48 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 49 | Linda was just taking off her apron when Carol was the next person to pop her head round the kitchen door . |
| 50 | Oliver put his head into the bedroom . |
| 51 | You will notice phrases like crocodile tears , the elephant never forgets , and the ostrich burying its head in the sand . |
| 52 | Patrick braced his head against the rest just as the crash came . |
| 53 | Nicolo jerked his head towards the door that led out to the reception area . |
| 54 | ‘ Mary has her head in the clouds . ’ |
| 55 | She was rescued when the door behind her suddenly opened and one of the junior chemists put his head round the door . |
| 56 | Falling down the steps , the poor woman banged her head against the side wall of the shelter and lost consciousness . |
| 57 | Ace poked her head around the stone with the idea of following , but covering fire from Richmann blasted chunks from the stone and forced her to duck back again . |
| 58 | Across the street , a stray dog poked his head into the barber shop , then skittered out again . |
| 59 | MIKE BIRT kept his head in the choppy conditions at Hove to win round one of the British Funboard Cup . |
| 60 | Very slowly , Mary put her head on the block . |