Example sentences of "a [noun sg] over [pos pn] head " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If you 're not beautiful in our image , then put a bucket over your head , or hide at home if you 're too fat ; we do n't want to see you .
3 ‘ I 'm afraid all this clever talk is a bit over their heads .
4 I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while .
5 Owen had closed in behind him and flung a cloak over his head and shoulders , and twisted the skirts of it tight round his body and arms .
6 His mother Kathleen told an industrial tribunal : ‘ The postmen put a sack over his head and threatened to post him to Hull .
7 As for you , I could n't care less if you walked out on to that stage with a sack over your head . ’
8 She had pulled a stocking over her head and threatened a cashier with a toy cowboy gun .
9 I 'm hardly the type to rob a bank with a sawn-off shotgun and a stocking over my head — I 'd more likely do it using a computer or something .
10 Pretending to be an Arab , Phillips stood in the middle of the track with a blanket over his head .
11 Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go .
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 He says : ‘ There are times when the enormity of the challenge makes you want to pull a blanket over your head .
15 ‘ Then you 'd better throw a blanket over your head , ’ he said quietly .
16 just throw a blanket over my head and pretend I was a budgie .
17 Many of the homeless on London 's streets would be glad of warm clothes and a roof over their head .
18 Most homeless people are not ‘ social problems ’ in any other respect than that they need a roof over their head .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 ?
22 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 .
23 The first night passed quietly enough as the newcomers were thoroughly examined and were glad to get a roof over their heads .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Like most British national trails , many continental distance routes assume that walkers are travelling light and seeking a roof over their heads each night .
27 Who would offer a woman and three children a roof over their heads ?
28 ‘ They got fed , ’ said Constance , ‘ and they had a roof over their heads .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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