Example sentences of "head [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then their blonde heads met over a whisper , followed by twin ricochets of studied laughter . |
| 2 | St George is seen to slay a twin-headed dragon : on the one head is a hammer and sickle , on the other a dollar sign , and both heads emerge from a body bearing the Star of David . |
| 3 | As their heads disappeared under a pile of plaster of paris and alginate we were shown what a relatively simple and inexpensive process this was . |
| 4 | The first is that drivers spend most of their working lives , with their heads encased in a fibreglass bucket . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if he had been caught , Bartholomew would have been sliced from neck to crotch , his genitals ripped off and stuffed into his mouth , and his decapitated head placed on a spike above the city gates . |
| 6 | The finished product was large , 6 by 13¾ inches , and shows a young man on a draped sofa , his head resting on a pillow . |
| 7 | Ngune was helped into the back of the van and placed gently on a palliasse with his head resting on a pillow . |
| 8 | It seemed that a dark halo enclosed the men 's faces and her head filled with a sound of the sea . |
| 9 | Looking in at the observation ward , with its partly screened beds , she hoped that Mike Quinn — poor man — would n't take it into his head to go in a hurry . |
| 10 | She looked so forlorn , so utterly defeated , her head drooping like a snowdrop , her wonderfully lithe body clinging almost orgiastically to the tree trunk . |
| 11 | She walked with a stagger , due to damage to the middle ear , her head swathed in a bandage and saliva dripping from the disfigured side of her mouth . |
| 12 | She foiled their efforts by calmly walking straight up through the pine trees , her head muffled with a headscarf and flat cap , leaving Fleet Street 's finest clueless as to her identity . |
| 13 | She skipped in circles round the silent chamber , her great head bobbing like a bird 's . |
| 14 | ( It should be pointed out that , if a region 's GDP per head declines as a proportion of UK GDP , it does not necessarily imply that the region 's GDP per head has declined in absolute terms , but only in comparison with that of the UK . ) |
| 15 | The head responded with a plea for further improvements in staffing , improvements in the fabric of the school buildings , the need for additional resources , particularly money to strengthen some departments , and improvements in the school library . |
| 16 | I am a and my name is Tom people say to me your head looks like a condom . |
| 17 | and he goes erm I am a con my head looks like a condom . |
| 18 | His head looks like a baby 's arse . |
| 19 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 20 | His dark , shapely head moved in a gesture that held tacit irritation . |
| 21 | Lorry driver Alan Brown saw a woman walking with her head bowed with a man following one pace behind . |
| 22 | When the whistle blew to end the Scottish agony , Haffey left the field with his head bowed in a mixture of humiliation and loneliness . |
| 23 | Her severed head flopped on a bin of guts , yellow beak in a grimace — take me with you ? |
| 24 | 32 ( Right ) Bronze head decapitated from a statue of Augustus in 25–24 BC . |
| 25 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 26 | Startled , George turned his head to stare at a woman who was standing up somewhere in the middle of the tight-packed rows of the audience . |
| 27 | Head wrapped in a scarf and tied over her chin . |
| 28 | In the yard , under the gaze of the assembled passengers , an old man in his underwear , his head wrapped in a towel , was hosing down the inside of our bus . |
| 29 | The first time he 'd seen her , after all , she 'd had her head wrapped in a towel . |
| 30 | It is highly unlikely that he himself travelled to Muscovy and Guinea , as a later epitaph alleged ( though he had an elephant 's head displayed as a curiosity in his house ) , but he was certainly one of the richest and most prominent of overseas merchants in early Tudor London . |