Example sentences of "the 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 . |