Background Data for Constructionalization of body part constructions in Russian: five constructions with face, eyes, forehead, and back terms

<p><b>Dataset abstract</b></p> The dataset includes the attestations of five Russian constructions with body part term anchors (face, eyes, forehead, and back): VP v lico ('in face'), VP v glaza ('in eyes'), VP v lob ('in forehead'), VP za spinoj ('behind back'), and VP za glaza ('behind eyes'). The database covers the period from the 11th century to 2019. The dataset is in Russian. The database contains examples from the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru), specifically the main and historical (Old East Slavic and Middle Russian) subcorpora. The data was collected from the RNC during the period spanning spring 2024 to summer 2025.