Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 2 | I told the others , ‘ we either write some new songs and start behaving like a proper band again or knock it on the head , this time for good ’ . |
| 3 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 4 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 5 | Worriedly judging her moment , and hoping fervently that the other two heard nothing , she slipped out behind the third man , and cracked him over the head with the cutters . |
| 6 | I was going to wash the pots I 'll go and smack him round the head |
| 7 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 8 | You close the door , take off your glasses because your vision is so distorted , and kick him in the head ; far too softly , then still not hard enough , as he scrabbles round on the floor , one hand at his crotch and the other at his head , making a spitting , wheezing noise . |
| 9 | Brown was found guilty after trial of assaulting Mr Kelly , 23 , by punching and kicking him about the head and body , seizing hold of him , stabbing him on the body with a knife and to the danger of his life . |
| 10 | Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound . |
| 11 | ‘ It blew the clock off the wall and hit me on the head . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The jet-ski shot out of the water and hit me on the head . |
| 13 | James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks . |
| 14 | One day last October , as a Conservative politician , Alberto Dahik , rose to speak in Congress , a rival congressman launched a heavy glass ashtray across the chamber and hit him on the head . |
| 15 | He had waylaid Mr Dwerringhouse and hit him on the head to stun him , but in falling to the ground , the older man had hit his head on a large stone and sustained a fatal blow . |
| 16 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 17 | One day a big bit of plaster fell off and hit him on the head . |
| 18 | The man , who was Bill Sikes , seized Oliver with one strong hand and hit him on the head with the other . |
| 19 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 20 | The boom is the pole running across the bottom of the sail , designed to swing across the boat and hit you on the head when you try to turn . |
| 21 | Do n't sink into your shoulders as if one of the chandeliers is about to descend and hit you on the head . |
| 22 | He was walking off when I reached out , grabbed him again and slapped him across the head . |
| 23 | Used to take them out and shoot them in the head . |
| 24 | Another thing she could n't step in , and do it over the head with someone who was supposed to be doing on that March . |
| 25 | A red truck drew up beside him , a man got out walked over to Mariano and shot him in the head and chest . |
| 26 | Picked up a revolver and shot himself through the head . ’ |
| 27 | Flamboyant Susan Allen , 25 , withdrew a pistol from the Maze Prison armoury on Monday night and shot herself in the head hours later at her Banbridge home . |
| 28 | Albuin , little knowing he was the king 's son , unsheathed his sword and struck him on the head … |
| 29 | Then this young punk comes up behind me and hits me on the head with a car-tool . |
| 30 | 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 . |