Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 2 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 3 | Mr Seymour recalled the astonishment he had felt when a passenger opened the door of his driving cabin and started to hit him around the head . |
| 4 | He started to clout me around the head , yelling , ‘ Burglar ! |
| 5 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
| 6 | They did repeat the rush goal from every angle and it DID hit him on the head … more later … they also discussed the penalty and concluded that was a joke . |
| 7 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 8 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 9 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |