Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | They need to be the product of shared work between head , governors , staff and , as far as possible , parents , but the main responsibility lies on the head . |
| 2 | And tape goes past the head at about seven and a half inches a second . |
| 3 | Typically , the mandible of Pterygote insects is a solid compact piece articulating with the head by a ginglymus and condyle . |
| 4 | Binding off has ‘ give ’ and ensures a round neck goes over the head . |
| 5 | Then , after a pause , the G cell turns towards the head , while the C cell extends towards the tail ( see figure ) . |
| 6 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 7 | Only later did Sukarno reveal the full venom of his animosity ( ‘ While I was taking hammer blows on the head his entire underground effort can be summed up by saying he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio ’ ) . |
| 8 | The search for Dennis Garvey has been stepped up after a post mortem revealed his wife had died from hammer blows to the head . |
| 9 | Headaches are congestive and throbbing ; blood mounts to the head ; better ( > ) cold and rest , worse ( < ) heat , motion and lying down ; often they have to sit up and apply pressure to the head and a cold application . |
| 10 | Under this regime , the most solid nerves can not resist for long ; the moment arrives where the blood mounts to the head ; where fever burns the body and where the nerves , exhausted , become incapable of reacting . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course it was the bedroom belonging to the head of the house but he could n't have turned mother out . ’ |
| 12 | Those attending included the Kuwaiti Oil Minister Rashid Salim al Amiri , and an Iraqi delegation led by the head of the State Company for Oil Marketing rather than by the recently appointed acting Oil Minister , Brig. -Gen . |
| 13 | But the terms were not equal , for his assailant bled from the head , under his conical helm and gorget of chain mail , and from some wounds under his plate-armour , also , for there were red seams in his body-harness , and he leaned to his right side , favouring it as he fought . |
| 14 | The adviser described to the head the purpose of the visit as ‘ to get on the right wavelength — that the self-appraisal needs some talking through ’ . |
| 15 | The president sat at the head of the long mahogany table . |
| 16 | Once the body had been placed in the coffin and the fitted pillow positioned under the head , these ‘ sheets ’ were folded over the remains and either pinned together or roughly sewn into place . |
| 17 | A move to restrict the use of juries in libel actions was defeated in 1981 , largely as a result of public satisfaction at the performance of the jury which sat for six months to hear the claim for libel brought by the head of the " Moonies " in England against the " Daily Mail " . |
| 18 | This session ended with the Head of Department visibly upset by the criticisms over output , particularly homework , and it was decided that an extra session should be arranged in order further to explore issues in evaluation and assessment . |
| 19 | Individual department reports were then compiled into faculty reports by the head of faculty who again added his/her own comments . |
| 20 | In 1980 the US response to conflict at the head of the Gulf was twofold . |
| 21 | Joseph could see tufts of grizzled hair protruding from beneath the sweat-soaked turban wrapped around the head of his aged coolie and he did n't have the heart to order him to gallop . |
| 22 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 23 | The person then goes round the circle touching on the head those sitting and saying ‘ Was it you , was it you , was it you ? ’ until eventually says ‘ It was you ’ . |
| 24 | On being relieved , the decoration parade , with a general galloping at the head of his elegant staff past the tattered and gap-ridden ranks of the 151st , seemed to young Campana ‘ the most beautiful day of my life ’ . |
| 25 | Sergeant Juron was slurring lies into a helmet microphone torn from the head of the dead Princeps as Yeremi returned . |
| 26 | An image flew into her head of Dorothy as some Wagnerian virago ; it was not entirely inappropriate — there had been a whiff of the Valkyrie about her mother , with her alternating hairstyles of frayed bun or plait wound around the head and tendency to long brown shapeless garments . |
| 27 | The latest outbursts against Governor Chris Patten 's democracy package came from the head of China 's Hong Kong affairs office , Lu Ping , who said Mr Patten would be ‘ condemned through the ages . ’ |
| 28 | At the time of this review , the Senior Management Team consisted of the Head , the three Deputy Heads ( First Deputy Head ( Staff ) , Second Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) , Third Deputy Head ( Administration ) , and a Senior Teacher , the Director of Studies . |
| 29 | A black bar runs , unbroken , from the operculum to the caudal fin with black bars running at an angle from this , giving the impression of a chevron pointing towards the head . |
| 30 | It has been his job to knock on the head any mutterings about this summer 's circus , notably those emanating from the Partito Sardo D'Azione , the Sardinian nationalist party , which proclaims sarcastically that it thought Sardinia 's days as a penal colony were long past . |