Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 2 | The organizer taps someone on the head and that child has to tiptoe round the circle while ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ tries to point to the person . |
| 3 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 4 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 5 | The end of the passage brought her to the head of the kitchen stairs the head of a mine-shaft . |
| 6 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 7 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 8 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 9 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 10 | Bowers said : ‘ The ball hit me on the head — I did n't handle it . |
| 11 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 12 | Billie hurled herself at them , tried to push them away from Adam , but the storm-trooper with the bucket hit her across the head with it , sent her sprawling backwards across the room . |
| 13 | All I can remember is an object hitting me in the head as it came through the window and glass shattering everywhere . |
| 14 | Then the orderly beats him over the head , pumps a couple of .38 's into Mahoney with a silenced gun , turns round and walks out . |
| 15 | The truly empathetic New Man positions himself by the head of his partner 's bed , knows when to go for a walk in the park and , reverting to a traditional male role , protects the woman from unwanted intruders . |
| 16 | Come in here and like a walking stick to beat you round the head ! |
| 17 | The sentry on duty shot him through the head . |
| 18 | The doctor patted him on the head . |
| 19 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 20 | And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms . |
| 21 | Try a part-time job , two kids with chicken-pox and an impending twin christening with 35 guests and 7 staying overnight , I thought , but I resisted the temptation to pat him on the head . |