The roof would just come down and that'd be it.
The building was so loud, the roof could have come in at any time.
"I think they were trying to get out of the house before the roof came down and buried them," he said.
It was obvious that the roof came down and finally met the beach.
At last the roof of the cabin came in view.
The roof came right down till I was bent low.
The roof was also leaning and coming away from the east wall of the church.
Sure enough, another roof came along in a few minutes.
There was a huge movement of rock above the old coal face when the roof came in.
In the old days the roofs of the houses came to the ground.