Example sentences of "[pron] head [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side . |
2 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
3 | Finally she fought , trying to escape that devastating possession , twisting her head frantically from side to side until Luke 's hands came up to still her struggles . |
4 | With her face still hidden , Eleanor began shaking her head violently from side to side . |
5 | She began to struggle , tossing her head wildly from side to side in an effort to avoid his marauding lips . |
6 | He wagged his head slowly from side to side . |
7 | He moved his head slowly from side to side . |
8 | He shook his head slowly from side to side . |
9 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
10 | Pete , the new boy , stood shaking his head slowly from side to side , |
11 | I noticed as he moved forwards , that he swung his head slightly from side to side . |
12 | Forty years later , I sat in the drawing-room of his home at Sevenoaks in Kent , watching him shake his head vigorously from side to side as he contemplated the ruins of his own efforts to resolve the Palestine problem . |