Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 2 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 3 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 4 | Do not confuse it with the head , for the latter can be struck harder and still score . |
| 5 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 6 | I nearly hit him over the head , I thought it was Jason . |
| 7 | She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy . |
| 8 | Jurors decided that he assaulted his brother , Robert , 30 , to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life by shooting him , pinning him to the ground and repeatedly hitting him on the head with bottles . |
| 9 | For example , the child who has been taught and has learned to make his babysitter laugh whenever he plays with her can not also hit her over the head with a toy when he is playing with her . |
| 10 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 11 | Fortunately they did n't knock me on the head or anything which they could have done , could n't they ? |
| 12 | And even though ‘ Trout ’ has a message , it 's not done in a tedious , obvious way — it does n't hammer you over the head . ’ |
| 13 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 14 | N : If I die before I 'm dead , please shoot me in the head |
| 15 | do n't hit yourself on the head , it 'll hurt , shall I make you say Robert |
| 16 | Besides two short piano pieces from Sanctus , Words For The Dying also includes the luminous The Soul of Carmen Miranda , one of three spontaneous and highly promising recordings with Eno that will set the tone for the next album , ‘ a rock'n'roll record I can be happy with because the percussion wo n't hit me over the head . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah I mean some very nice girls do n't take that wrong I mean , they n they do n't hit you on the head and start fighting every time you talk to them . |
| 18 | Because you ca n't wallop them round the head can you ? |
| 19 | In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there . |
| 20 | In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there . |
| 21 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 22 | I much prefer to hear someone angry , almost sledgehammering you over the head with their guitar . |
| 23 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 24 | Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious . |
| 25 | John Ryan MP claimed to have seen a policeman remove a woman 's glasses and then strike her on the head ; she had appeared , to him , to be over sixty years of age and a bystander . |
| 26 | Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen . |
| 27 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |