Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] over [pos pn] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singer draped the T-shirt over his head , but his laughter was evident in the way his shoulders shook . |
| 2 | On the board over his head was written , in white letters on black : " THE LORD COMETH " . |
| 3 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 4 | She stood , slipping the necklace over her head . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To burn the roof over their heads . |
| 7 | How it kept the roof over their heads as well as helping the community . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The patient pulls the sweater over his head and then puts the unaffected arm into its sleeve . |
| 16 | Alternatively , the unaffected arm is put into its sleeve and the patient then pulls the sweater over his head , leaning well forwards from the hips . |
| 17 | She pulled the duvet over her head and ignored it . |
| 18 | I pulled the duvet over my head . |
| 19 | She managed to slip the skirt over her head gingerly and settle it in place with its ribbon ties , but she realised that she needed a maid to lace up the front of the separate bodice for her . |
| 20 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 21 | They could hear her moving about in the room over their heads . |
| 22 | He pulled the top of the shift over her head . |
| 23 | They were n't designed to last this long , and I changed so quickly into these clothes , just pulled the blouse over my head … |
| 24 | So far as Vecchi was concerned , the guy must have climbed into a hole in the ground and pulled the lid over his head . |
| 25 | I have decided that as from tonight I will be reborn under a different star , ’ and here she gestured upwards to the constellation over her head , ‘ I will be rechristened , I will come down those stairs tomorrow night fresh to the world and glistening with a new name ; from now on , you will kindly refer to me , both to my sainted face and behind my back , as Mother . |
| 26 | There was a drawing of an axe with a hooded figure swinging the weapon over his head . |
| 27 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 28 | She pulled the towel over her head and had another weep — a good one this time to get it out of her system . |
| 29 | For this , he incurred the sentence of excommunication , from which he was promptly absolved by the cardinal after public penance ; he then heard mass and received the sacrament , while ‘ the earls of Argyll and Bothwell held the towel over his head ’ . |
| 30 | He thought to himself , right , you 've called the boy Hilbert to please me , to make me like him , so I damn well will like him , I 'll like him more than you and leave him the place over your head . ’ |