Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [pron] head [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 2 | It 's very difficult now with all the other cutbacks , I just do n't know how I 'm going to manage and whether or not I 'll have a roof over my head by the end of the year or what will be happening . |
| 3 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 4 | Hoogeveen was a nondescript , cheerless place , and so was his room , with only a dirty skylight over his head for a window . |
| 5 | I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors ; sleep is impossible . |
| 6 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 7 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 8 | Jacqueline Bridger , 46 , poured a can of petrol over her head in the office of Michael Sargeant , the man she claimed had been her lover , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 9 | But the individual members of Lloyd 's , mostly people who were dabbling way over their head in a subject about which they knew little , were often persuaded to hang on for things to improve . |