Which preposition to use with roofings
There was a rift in the sombre roofing of clouds; she saw a strip of clean blue sky through which a splendid sun shone.
"I heard you were going to put new roofing on that barn you are fixing up, Mr. Driver, and I thought I might get your order for the job.
Some had set up little stands in front of their burned houses and were trying to sell apples, plums, pears, about the only marketable thing left; some were cleaning brick and trying to rebuild, some contented themselves with roofing over their cellars.
Three days later they returned, accompanied by a horde of acolytes, who, with characteristic contempt for the pathetic appeals upon the notice-boards, proceeded to dump down lumber, sandbags, and corrugated iron roofing in the most exposed portions of the garden.
A British Tommy regards himself as completely protected from the assaults of his enemies if he can lay a sheet of corrugated-iron roofing across his bit of trench and sit underneath it.
Bowers has completed his southern storeroom and brought the wing across the porch on the windward side, connecting the roofing with that of the porch.
And they had less trouble with the timber; they could cut their planks at the sawmill, which gave them the outside pieces for roofing at the same time.
" "The new pastor of Saint Marks told me," said Mr. Drury, irrelevantly, "that they would be wanting some new roofing for the barn they're turning into a community house.