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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 As they crawl , they wave their heads from side to side .
2 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 .
3 The others were all shaking their heads from side to side .
4 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 .
5 The German stopped moving his head from side to side and looked at me .
6 He had started moaning again and moving his head from side to side .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 and tears , her neck aches from turning her head from side to side to avoid his mouth and her jaw from clamping itself shut .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 If it scents its prey , it swings its head from side to side to determine the direction from which the smell is coming .
17 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 .
18 She wagged her head from side to side .
19 ‘ Uh , uh , ’ I wagged my head from side to side .
20 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 .
21 Lying back on her pillows , Elinor slowly shook her head from side to side but said nothing .
22 Then she sat down and shook her head from side to side at her daughter , disbelief in her eyes .
23 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 .
24 He turned his head from side to side trying to line up his patchy vision with the brown paper package — wherever that was .
25 I bobbled my head from side to side .
26 He swung his head from side to side .
27 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 .
28 He swung his head from side to side like a dangerous animal about to attack , and then abruptly he released his grip .
29 Then she slithered into Lytham with 'em , Shaking out a rhythm with 'em , Wobb-er-ling and jogg-er-ling Her head from side to side .
30 Lucien rolled his head from side to side upon the wooden bench .
  Next page