Example sentences of "[verb] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1983 I again met the Head of the Art Department . |
| 2 | His non-stop verbal explications , declaimed as he strode up and down the crowded aisles , described the gods and mythology and history of the people of Persia ; and his improvisation fitted what was happening in the film as the hair fits the head . |
| 3 | In one of them the visitors faced the problem of the relationship between the staff and a head of department being the subject of a libel action , and a refusal by the staff to meet the visitors in the presence of the head of the department ( resolved by the visiting party member who chaired the meeting allowing the head of department to stay until he had to leave ‘ for another meeting ’ ) . |
| 4 | Now the M here is for mind and that includes obviously brain now we come on first of all to the head injuries head injury there is a brain , now a pressure , accident which involves the head . |
| 5 | Top right : Restraints on the single point view show in plan and elevation the effect of rotating the head at 22½° intervals , horizontally . |
| 6 | CHECK THE TARGET BY ROTATING THE HEAD |
| 7 | They begin with simple movement exercises such as standing with the hands on the hips and very slowly rotating the head from right to left , then reversing the procedure . |
| 8 | Grasp the heel , and , bending the torso , push the head down to the knees . |
| 9 | It just grazed the head of the fella working opposite me . |
| 10 | Wind the head to the top of the column , so your paper area is covered . |
| 11 | Wind the head to the top of the column , so your paper area is covered . |
| 12 | He stuffed the head half headfirst into woman |
| 13 | He hanked the head of the spinnaker to the spare forehalyard so that the sail would set outside the jib . |
| 14 | It was of a man ; huge , encrusted with bony protrusions that made the head appear square , as though he was wearing a helmet . |
| 15 | It may be an ark , but one on which anthropophagy is rife ; an ark skippered by some crazy greybeard who beats you round the head with his gopher-wood stave , and might pitch you overboard at any moment . |
| 16 | Sitting with legs outstretched , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 17 | With legs together and knees flat on the floor , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 18 | Sitting as shown , bring the head and shoulders forwards and down as far as possible . |
| 19 | Sitting with legs together and knees flat on the floor , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 20 | Sitting with legs outstretched , bring the head and shoulders forward and down as far as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ Send to the hospital and bring the head doctor here . |
| 22 | He went on to say that the Head characteristically had ‘ preconceived ideas ’ and was ‘ somewhat biased towards and against certain individuals ’ and that the reviews were not likely to affect the Head 's preconceptions very much . |
| 23 | Literaturnaya Gazeta applied to interview the head of the department in charge of Armenian rebuilding in the Soviet Ministry of Building in Moscow , but he refused . |
| 24 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , you have , lad , get to see the head , that 's what you 've got to do . ’ |
| 26 | You will need to see the Head to ask him or her for permission to meet in school and for a room to meet in . |
| 27 | I was present when one subject adviser made a visit , first to see the head , then the head of department and finally the whole department . |
| 28 | Well the head lad was a , er the head lad had to see the head lad 's er , job was to be there first in the morning and the last off the place at night . |
| 29 | This was more possible on the east and south elevations which adjoin the head of the village street and a public car park access road respectively than it was on the west and south sides . |
| 30 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |