Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] head of " in BNC.

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1 He then marched up the hall , climbed on to the dais and sat down at the head of the table there , snapping his fingers for Athelstan to join him .
2 Through the open ceiling panel , which he might easily have climbed out of , had he chosen to number pulling over the desk amongst his previous choice of options , the barrel of a trusty Smith and Wesson was visible , aiming down at the head of his other self .
3 He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue .
4 In the second-round run-off presidential election held on May 8 , 1988 , Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the centre-left Democratic Left ( Izquierda Democrática — ID ) polled 46 per cent of the vote and was sworn in at the head of a new government on Aug. 10 [ see p. 36343 ] .
5 Lothar de Maizière of the CDU is sworn in at the head of a grand coalition government [ pp. 37378-80 ] .
6 She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban .
7 At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men .
8 She came out at the head of the stairs and looked down .
9 Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord .
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