Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the head [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has among his own ranks the formidable figure of Michael Hesletine , understood to be lobbing for the head of a super ministry of Environment and Industry , in a slimmed down Cabinet . |
| 2 | Handles were varied , too , some being complete loops formed of linked scrolls , while others curved upwards , sometimes ending in the head of a marine creature . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what response he has made to the complaints he has received about measurements relating to the head of a pint of beer in the current year . |
| 4 | In France , meeting with the head of Ariola Records , the company responsible for distributing Virgin in that country , Branson listened with interest as the managing director told him excitedly that Ariola were about to pull off an enormous coup by signing Julien Clerc , France 's Frank Sinatra . |
| 5 | GREENPEACE is accusing Nuclear Electric of risking safety by refusing to delay commissioning of the Sizewell B power station — despite a risk of cracks developing in the head of the vessel which forms the ‘ heart ’ of the reactor . |
| 6 | According to the head of the party 's Moscow branch , it was a late-night row in the party 's Politburo that finally persuaded Mr Gorbachev last autumn to ditch the Shatalin plan . |
| 7 | GERMAN interest rates will fall below 8 p.c. this year , according to the head of the country 's second largest bank . |
| 8 | According to the head of the Jordanian delegation , Abdul Salam Majali , the two sides remained divided over the settlements issue and the interpretation of UN Resolution 242 . |
| 9 | According to the head of Berlin 's Radiation Measurement Office , Udo Morfeld , the pollution has not created as big a problem as it could have because the clay soil has slowed down the seepage of radioactive material into the groundwater . |
| 10 | * Western countries need to provide at least another £4.1 billion to make former Soviet-bloc pressurized water reactors safe , according to the head of the German Siemens group energy division . |
| 11 | He took off again , shouting to the head of the flight , I saw the buses and the windows of the waiting room on my left and dived across the road and through the door . |
| 12 | Chakras connected by copper wire leading to the head of the idol . |
| 13 | Such enthusiasm , John Campbell thought wryly , taking his sister 's hand to lead her towards Abbot Kenneth standing waiting at the head of the hall . |
| 14 | The neck is the focus of special attention , at times competing with the head with which its relationship is never securely fixed , always open to negotiation . |
| 15 | Typically , the mandible of Pterygote insects is a solid compact piece articulating with the head by a ginglymus and condyle . |
| 16 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course it was the bedroom belonging to the head of the house but he could n't have turned mother out . ’ |
| 18 | From the point of view of people seeking work , the kin group continues to provide a reliable and up-to-date information network and a means of getting to the head of the queue of potential employees . |
| 19 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 20 | Salt mining at the head of the Nam Siew river has made parts of the river twice as salty as the sea . |
| 21 | As his English guest turned at the door of his study to bow to the Romanian head of state before leaving his presence , he saw that Ceauşescu was holding out his fingers in the shape of a gun pointing at the head of his own interpreter ! |
| 22 | Hearing the tramp of marching feet , he looked up to see Captain Warre riding at the head of his company . |
| 23 | WHO 'LL take the part of jail rebel Paul Taylor in the film of the Strangeways riot , a project inevitably germinating in the head of some tyro movie producer still at film school ? |
| 24 | She seeks out the host queen , and rides about on her back while she quietly performs , to quote Edward Wilson 's artfully macabre understatement , ‘ the one act for which she is uniquely specialized : slowly cutting off the head of her victim ’ . |
| 25 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
| 26 | He thought of the forsaken wedding preparations , of the thoughts running through the head of the betrothed man , whose name he did not even know , of the decorations which were now mockeries . |
| 27 | These words from Flower of Scotland will no doubt have been running through the head of Dick Best as he flew home to London yesterday . |
| 28 | Then cars may be parked on the verges and a way made across a footbridge over the River Elchaig to a well-blazed path leading up , in one mile , to the top of the Falls of Glomach , a very popular objective of walkers approaching from the head of Loch Duich . |
| 29 | The Yellow Sword , Xiphophorus clemenciae , has a turquoise blue body , with a number of salmon red stripes running from the head to the caudal peduncle . |
| 30 | ‘ As a matter of fact , the really nasty bit was when I was walking across here , coming over the head of the cliff there with the wind trying to blow me out to sea again . ’ |