Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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1 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
2 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
3 | It 's just that , nowadays in life , you make a mistake and someone bangs you on the head for it . |
4 | I quote it to the Head whenever suitable occasions arise . |
5 | Head of Department : ‘ No , occasionally I mention it to the Head : problems — no capital . |
6 | People say I kicked him in the head but there is no way I would do that . ’ |
7 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
8 | How many times can you sit in your chair and let someone smash you over the head with a can of beans ? |
9 | ( He gets up and ‘ accidently ’ scratches the record — which knocks it on the head for Vixen — and me , since we are reviewing the singles on the editor 's stereo . ) |
10 | I heard the noise , and had my hand halfway to my gun when somebody beat me over the head with the Empire State Building . |
11 | ARMY veteran Tom Clarkson had a special date yesterday with part of a bomb which hit him in the head during World War Two . |
12 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
13 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
14 | I know , you hit me on the head . |
15 | You know , you buy co , a bottle of Coke , it says , you know , if you hit somebody over the head , it can hurt them , so please do n't , kids do n't do this at home type stuff . |
16 | She hit me over the head |
17 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
18 | ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face . |
19 | Kerry Brown , of Garallan Square , Pennyburn , Kilwinning , was sitting with her family watching television when two large stones were thrown through the window , one hitting her on the head . |
20 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
21 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
22 | They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun . |
23 | They struck you on the head and left you locked inside . |
24 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
25 | And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head . |
26 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
27 | Luckily , it hit him on the head . |
28 | There was a difference of opinion what happened next — she thought it went in from there , I was convinced it hit him in the head and went in . |
29 | The shooting gallery was open to members of the public , and was the scene of a spectacular feat of arms by Horace Hunter , who hit the target ‘ in the second buttonhole of the waistcoat , five times out of every six , and when he did n't hit there , he hit him in the head ’ . |
30 | He bashed me over the head and took out a knife to threaten me . |