Example sentences of "head [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 He wagged his head slowly from side to side .
2 He moved his head slowly from side to side .
3 He shook his head slowly from side to side .
4 His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side .
5 They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed .
6 Pete , the new boy , stood shaking his head slowly from side to side ,
7 Forty years later , I sat in the drawing-room of his home at Sevenoaks in Kent , watching him shake his head vigorously from side to side as he contemplated the ruins of his own efforts to resolve the Palestine problem .
8 Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side .
9 Finally she fought , trying to escape that devastating possession , twisting her head frantically from side to side until Luke 's hands came up to still her struggles .
10 I just wanted to take up the point that 's been raised again , and it keeps popping its its little head up from time to time , this issue of building rates .
11 I noticed as he moved forwards , that he swung his head slightly from side to side .
12 She began to struggle , tossing her head wildly from side to side in an effort to avoid his marauding lips .
13 With her face still hidden , Eleanor began shaking her head violently from side to side .
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