Example sentences of "[unc] house [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we left the headman 's house we were joined by a group of young boys who 'd been waiting outside with their dogs , and by other men from houses that we passed along the way . |
| 2 | As we drove back into London and towards Toby 's house we worried away at the problem , to such an extent that the issues became more , rather than less , obscure . |
| 3 | So we re we revamped Neighbourhood Watch , and what we did was er is er instead of going to everyone 's house we have this meeting at the beginning just to discuss crime prevention and er tell people what Neighbourhood Watch is about . |
| 4 | All the way out to Keller 's house they kept up a ceaseless flow of questions about the Channings and the bruises on my head . |
| 5 | If the water did enter a person 's house they were usually able to move all of the furniture and possessions upstairs where they would keep safe and dry , but this was not possible for all the residents . |
| 6 | Like opening a lock of a door of somebody 's house they ca n't get in ? |
| 7 | But when Charlie was staying at Eva 's house he spent hours with my father , to whom he told the truth . |
| 8 | In my grandmother 's house I had had a big bedroom ; here I had to share . |
| 9 | ‘ That night at my daughter 's house I felt very emotional when Peter stood up to leave . |
| 10 | ‘ When I got into my neighbour 's house I felt safe . |
| 11 | When I realized I was walking towards my father 's house I quickly changed my direction . |
| 12 | For example — I feel disgusted and ashamed — I took my little girl down to my mum 's and I swear to God I remember dressing her — it was winter — but when she got to my mum 's house I took her out of the buggy and all she had on was her nappy and her socks and a blanket wrapped round her . |
| 13 | That was in Steven 's house I think that was |
| 14 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
| 15 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
| 16 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 17 | In Mary 's house it was Kamala who had just died . |
| 18 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 19 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 20 | Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all . |
| 21 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 22 | When at 7.30 am on Saturday 8 May I saw Marion Reid sitting in brilliant sunshine on the pavement , beside the doll 's house she had made for the Sale , waiting for the Church doors to be opened , I knew that all would be well . |
| 23 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 24 | In her Mum and Dad 's house you were so safe there was n't much point in playing — there were so many bits of furniture crammed into the room . |
| 25 | Even in somebody else 's house you |
| 26 | Packed into numbered wooden crates , simply stencilled THE QUEEN 'S DOLLS ' HOUSE it left dirt and chaos in its wake , ‘ … oh , the mess … it 's awful , I must put it clean , ’ wrote its creator to his wife , as he surveyed the wreckage of his Adam drawing room , ‘ but it will take a long time ! ’ |