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 .
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