Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] head on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 2 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 3 | Eleanor Thorne jerked her head on the pillow and opened her eyes , awakening in time to hear the echo of her own voice . |
| 4 | Unable to save herself , with a startled cry she pitched forward , tumbling down the remaining stairs and banging her head on the stone floor . |
| 5 | Carol was bounced backwards into her seat and then sideways on the floor of the van , banging her head on the side in the process . |
| 6 | She jumps up , banging her head on the partition . |
| 7 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head on the pillow . |
| 8 | She caught her head on the corner of the hearth . |
| 9 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 10 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 11 | And he kept banging his head on the ceiling ! |
| 12 | He picked it up , banging his head on the bowl . |
| 13 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 14 | The hand grabbed Arthur 's shirt front and tie in a vice like grip , and yanked him forward almost banging his head on the glass . |
| 15 | He was banging his head on the post and shouting . |
| 16 | Dad had fallen and cracked his head on the fireplace . |
| 17 | Train driver Graham Lumsden , of Duke Street , Hartlepool , said he was driving the train from Port Clarence to Thornaby and was approaching the North Shore signal box , about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Stockton station , when he saw a dark-haired male dash out from some bushes and place his head on the line . |
| 18 | He cracked his head on the trapdoor beneath the golden pavilion and fell to the floor like a lopped tree . |
| 19 | There is , however , a large variety of killings which lie above that line but below the line demarcating murder : a killing in which D knew there was a risk of death , but was held not to have intended death or grievous bodily harm , would fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a high sentence ; whereas a killing in which D pushed a person during an argument in the street and the person fell backwards , cracking his head on the kerb and dying from a brain haemorrhage , might also fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a low sentence . |
| 20 | He holds his hands passively forwards , and places his head on the carer 's shoulder , on the side away from the chair . |
| 21 | She had sat on the seat cover , resting her head on the porcelain of the washbasin , licking dry lips and bringing her breathing down . |
| 22 | I dribbled , I wet my pants , even banged my head on the furniture , and bawled … bawled almost nonstop . |
| 23 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 24 | She banged his head on the till and slammed the drawer on his hand , before he ran off almost empty-handed . |
| 25 | She banged his head on the till , slamming his hand in the drawer , and he ran off with only half a 20 pound note . |
| 26 | He banged his head on the beam at the top of the stairs . |
| 27 | I catch his head on the tilt , and he rights it without shame , showing only a flicker of annoyance at not catching a snippet of a sight . |
| 28 | If you hit a bump you banged your head on the top of the hatch . |
| 29 | I rested my head on the glass , and up went a pigeon . |
| 30 | With every thrust she gasped his name like an incantation , sensing his pleasure as the syllable burst from her love-swollen mouth , turning her head on the softness of the pillow spread with the sable blackness of her hair . |