Example sentences of "head from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Allied guns behind us sent a few shells rushing over our heads from time to time . |
| 2 | As they crawl , they wave their heads from side to side . |
| 3 | Norris ' ideas seem highly plausible and if this amazing and beautiful process is a correct understanding of part of the physical aspects of the dolphin 's 3-D sonar system , it also explains why they move their heads from side to side while they are emitting their characteristic echo-locating clicks — they are simply scanning their targets for angular , 3-D information . |
| 4 | The others were all shaking their heads from side to side . |
| 5 | Conversation was not easy : " Eliot turned his head from speaker to speaker , with a slight jerk , emitting a nervous tic " yes " or " hmm " every few seconds . |
| 6 | Ana seemed to pick up the vibes very quickly and tagged along with Mitch , laughing at his humour , turning her head from time to time in Maggie 's direction as if she could hear steam coming from her ears . |
| 7 | He pulled on his trousers and went quickly over to turn up the music , moving his head from side to side in time to the beat . |
| 8 | The German stopped moving his head from side to side and looked at me . |
| 9 | He had started moaning again and moving his head from side to side . |
| 10 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 11 | For the first time he stopped grinning , and , resting his elbows on his knees and his head on his hands , began to shake his head from side to side . |
| 12 | Julie stood on the sea wall and moved her head from side to side allowing the fresh wind from the estuary to blow through her hair . |
| 13 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 14 | and tears , her neck aches from turning her head from side to side to avoid his mouth and her jaw from clamping itself shut . |
| 15 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 16 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |
| 17 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 18 | The Titan with the blazing banner shook its head from side to side like some grazing beast tormented by stinging flies , by the hornets of his cannon shells . |
| 19 | If it scents its prey , it swings its head from side to side to determine the direction from which the smell is coming . |
| 20 | We stood there in the dark , imagining the bird crouched on a branch , turning its head from side to side , slurring from pitch to pitch . |
| 21 | She wagged her head from side to side . |
| 22 | ‘ Uh , uh , ’ I wagged my head from side to side . |
| 23 | He swung his head from side to side , trying to get rid of that image of the girl he had known as Stella Maris holding a baby in her arms . |
| 24 | Lying back on her pillows , Elinor slowly shook her head from side to side but said nothing . |
| 25 | Then she sat down and shook her head from side to side at her daughter , disbelief in her eyes . |
| 26 | The larger chimp pulled herself up and rested her face against the bars , watching him sideways , while Fifi grinned and shook her head from side to side . |
| 27 | He turned his head from side to side trying to line up his patchy vision with the brown paper package — wherever that was . |
| 28 | I bobbled my head from side to side . |
| 29 | He swung his head from side to side . |
| 30 | She hovered for a brief time over the trunk of the tree , tears streaming from her eyes , shuddering as the axes continued to cut into the wood , shaking her head from side to side . |