Example sentences of "[art] roof over [pos pn] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have spent years trying to clear their names after some trifling misdemeanour or insult and ended up having to sell the roof over their heads . |
| 2 | To burn the roof over their heads . |
| 3 | How it kept the roof over their heads as well as helping the community . |
| 4 | Short commons , endless insecurity , real fear of losing the roof over their heads , and all the best men cropped — packed off to Botany Bay for poaching . |
| 5 | And if the recession continued much longer she might return to London to find herself looking for some other occupation to keep the roof over her head — but that was her secret . |
| 6 | We were neither of us getting any younger , but he was a good few years older than I and I was the one with the roof over my head . |
| 7 | Without scruple politicians use fear as a persuasion weapon , targeting psychological needs : ‘ If you do n't vote for us you will lose freedom of choice/risk maltreatment under the NHS/deprive your children of good education/lessen the chance of losing the roof over your head . ’ |
| 8 | If you 've worked your way conscientiously through all the preceding chapters , sorted out the roof over your head , sussed out the teaching staff , discovered your way round the library and begun to develop good study habits , you may well be forgiven for thinking you wo n't find much time or space or energy left for anything like sex or love . |
| 9 | Making your fortune while you were asleep , just by getting into debt to own the roof over your head , was always to good to be true . |
| 10 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 11 | Many of the homeless on London 's streets would be glad of warm clothes and a roof over their head . |
| 12 | Most homeless people are not ‘ social problems ’ in any other respect than that they need a roof over their head . |
| 13 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 14 | It should be housing designed to meet a social need , directed towards those with no other means , no other option of getting a roof over their head . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind that you 're rich enough to live in Surrey , and some people ca n't even afford a roof over their head do n't you think you have a moral obligation towards these people ? |
| 16 | Well in one they 've got a roof over their head and in the other they have n't , I would 've thought that was a rather major difference . |
| 17 | The first night passed quietly enough as the newcomers were thoroughly examined and were glad to get a roof over their heads . |
| 18 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
| 19 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 20 | Like most British national trails , many continental distance routes assume that walkers are travelling light and seeking a roof over their heads each night . |
| 21 | Who would offer a woman and three children a roof over their heads ? |
| 22 | ‘ They got fed , ’ said Constance , ‘ and they had a roof over their heads . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Free time is what people are left with once there is food in their stomachs , a roof over their heads , security for their families and all the bills have been paid . |
| 25 | Just be thankful they 're safely in away from this weather and with a roof over their heads . |
| 26 | But not a roof over their heads . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had no prospect of a job and , without even a roof over her head , she was an automatic candidate for cardboard city — the community of derelicts who survive on the capital 's streets , in danger of sinking into a subculture of drugs and crime . |
| 29 | ‘ She 'll have a roof over her head as long as I 'm above ground , ’ he responded aggressively . |
| 30 | 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 . |