Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] over [pos pn] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 2 | To stress the importance of a roof over your head . |
| 3 | The threat had hung like a sword over his head for years and he wanted to confront it once and for all . |
| 4 | Now the old-fashioned , strong hessian is wonderful for keeping you warm and dry and John always sported three sacks — one round his waist , another over his shoulders , and the third with the corner pushed in for a hood over his head . |
| 5 | The man began laughing at him and said ‘ You need to get here when the doors open — there are lots like you , looking for a roof over their heads . |
| 6 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 7 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 8 | As for you , I could n't care less if you walked out on to that stage with a sack over your head . ’ |
| 9 | The sight of any other teacher dripping with water and with a bucket over her head would have been an occasion for great mirth among the pupils , but absolutely nothing could diminish Miss Hardbroom 's power . |
| 10 | I knew initially I did n't want a man in a silver suit with a mask over his head — the sort of thing you see in fairgrounds . |
| 11 | Pretending to be an Arab , Phillips stood in the middle of the track with a blanket over his head . |
| 12 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 13 | One police van was backed up to the door of the house and a boy was taken out with a blanket over his head . |
| 14 | Whether throwing punches and poses , splashing sweat across the stage or conducting the band with a towel over his head , there 's a real dynamism about his performance , an intensity which the band match blast for blast . |
| 15 | Chris Novoselic rolled a cigarette with the deliberate , weary motions of a man three times his age , while Dave Grohl sat motionless for ten minutes with a towel over his head , every now and again moaning , ‘ I think I 'm about to die ’ . |
| 16 | The couple stayed with the horse until a vet officially certified its death and then , to avoid waiting photographers , Diana left the Gaselees in the back of the Land Rover with a coat over her head . |
| 17 | Just be thankful they 're safely in away from this weather and with a roof over their heads . |
| 18 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 19 | Someone from the Vienna art gallery arrived to take a death mask , and crowds of people were soon queuing to view the body , which was laid on a bier in a black suit with a cowl over its head . |
| 20 | She was combing out her blonde hair and pouring a colourless liquid from a bottle over her head . |
| 21 | You see , I do n't expect , or want , anything from you , apart from a roof over my head . ’ |
| 22 | MOTHER Teresa has persuaded bosses of Britain 's powerful Housing Corporation to find a possible £500,000 to help those without a roof over their heads . |
| 23 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |