Example sentences of "had a [noun sg] over [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The highwayman had a mask over his face during the robbery and kept it up when he rode away — and a horse is a horse . |
2 | She was handcuffed and had a hood over her head . ’ |
3 | Jane , watching from the entrance , had a hand over her mouth . |
4 | Vi had a roof over her head again , bed and board and two shillings a day pay , and , better than that , she had found someone to mother . |
5 | But Holly and eight hundred with him had a roof over their Kitchen , and there would be a roof over Hut 2 when the freezing night came . |
6 | ‘ They got fed , ’ said Constance , ‘ and they had a roof over their heads . |
7 | We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras . |
8 | Thanks to her I still had a roof over my head , but this economic patronage subtly altered relations between us in a way that did nothing to improve my self-respect . |