Example sentences of "roof over [pos pn] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the homeless on London 's streets would be glad of warm clothes and a roof over their head . |
| 2 | Most homeless people are not ‘ social problems ’ in any other respect than that they need a roof over their head . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'll have a roof over her head as long as I 'm above ground , ’ he responded aggressively . |
| 9 | I suppose , technically speaking , ’ he paused , ‘ if you put her out into the road she would have no roof over her head and we should have to take her in . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , we took her in when she came back from London with her tail between her legs , and we fed her and gave her a roof over her head , but she was forever dolling herself up and going out . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now Anne Henderson is going to court to try to keep a roof over her head . |
| 15 | He had a good roof over his head , clean sheets , enough to eat and a bottle of stout in his hand . |
| 16 | Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest . |
| 17 | It is not the only roof over his head — in fact he has never lived in it . |
| 18 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 19 | " He did n't even have a roof over his head . " |
| 20 | The contrast between his treatment of Morpurgo — the occasional condescending coin — and Dysart 's — a roof over his head and some honest employment — was obviously lost on him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ’ , ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Lord is my Warden ; I shall have a roof over my head . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You see , I do n't expect , or want , anything from you , apart from a roof over my head . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What was comfort only a roof over your head , a full belly , a fire , books to read and nothing on your mind ? |
| 30 | ‘ I thought what we were worrying about was a roof over your head , ’ I said , feeling that Aunt Louise needed bringing down to earth . |