Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 2 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 3 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 4 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd want to club him on the head with a soulier de satin after two hours , ’ said Roger , in a harsh hurrying tone . |
| 6 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 7 | Mr Seymour recalled the astonishment he had felt when a passenger opened the door of his driving cabin and started to hit him around the head . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 9 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 10 | He started to clout me around the head , yelling , ‘ Burglar ! |
| 11 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
| 12 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 13 | They did repeat the rush goal from every angle and it DID hit him on the head … more later … they also discussed the penalty and concluded that was a joke . |
| 14 | I wish I had a truncheon I 'd love to bash one round the head . |
| 15 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 16 | No doubt you wish to pat him on the head for this . |
| 17 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 18 | Anyway , it 's very , very good news , he 's turned the corner I 've hit him over the head with the newspaper ! |
| 19 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |