Example sentences of "[vb infin] a house " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , she had nurtured an ambition to set up a conservation centre and nature trail in the country ; she would need a house and some land . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't need a house , ’ he 'd pointed out . |
| 3 | Ross Ferguson should buy a house in Southern Italy up a mountain . |
| 4 | We could have found somewhere cheaper , or taken up Richard 's mother 's offer that she should buy a house in the suburbs and share it with us , but Richard had theories about the importance of a good , central address , as well as about the waste of nervous energy involved in travelling . |
| 5 | MATRIARCH Emma Funnell has banished Andrew Jones , husband of her great grand-daughter Peggy , from her Bramble House home after learning that he has swindled the car firm of thousands , helping him buy a house for his mistress , Rosie Milburn . |
| 6 | People will buy a house if it suits them , regardless of the image you might be trying to create . |
| 7 | They can not afford to rent or buy a house elsewhere and they do not have the qualifications or skills to move , so they are , essentially , trapped . |
| 8 | down and saying right , we 're gon na buy a house , we 're gon na have kids , have we thought about how many kids we 're gon na have ? |
| 9 | I shall buy a house somewhere near here and I shall live there . |
| 10 | It 's only a little thing , putting window locks on , on , on , you would n't buy a house now without a lock on the door , but a lot of people still buy houses without locks on the windows . |
| 11 | Coming down here this week , I came a week early actually , I , I used a week 's holiday as well , and er my lady friend says I think we 'll buy a house in Goodwood . |
| 12 | If if if if you were wanting to buy erm buy a house if you were moving house , and I did n't realize until the other day that ninety percent of people who buy and sell houses are moving within their own area . |
| 13 | when you suggest to them , they can buy a house or get a mortgage with it . |
| 14 | An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house . |
| 15 | An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house . |
| 16 | Yes because I know , do you remember we were gon na buy a house down there |
| 17 | the bank seems to pay the a cripplingly low salary demand that everybody dresses in in Saville Row , but you could buy a house on a something like two and half percent mortgage well it 's not like that now , but it 's still still get a preferential mortgage and this banking person man was looking around only three or four weeks ago , but you see a lot depends on your luck as to whether you pick up a a very good buyer . |
| 18 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 19 | You could buy a house very cheaply then , but er |
| 20 | Well they do , look , the rich people can buy a house any time they want |
| 21 | and the rich will buy a house in this area , like you have Embassy people |
| 22 | He 'd buy a house for Penny 's mum , a big , big house and then they 'd sell it again and he left every bit of the money to Dionne , so she 'll be able to look after the child when she gets twenty-one and that , but now |
| 23 | Rather like English fairies , kuei will shy away from weapons made of iron or steel , and will not trouble a house where these are placed in the doorway . |
| 24 | Léonie did not trust a house with two staircases . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal may not overrule a House of Lords decision : and only in the exceptional circumstances set out in the Practice Statement of July 1 , 1966 ( Practice Statement ( judicial Precedent ) [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 ) , will this House refuse to follow its own previous decisions . |
| 26 | Other people may decide to buy or rent a house or flat in a modern purpose-built sheltered or clustered estate . |
| 27 | Neither , if you value your privacy and security , should you buy or rent a house on the end of a road where the public pavement runs alongside your house and garden . |
| 28 | ‘ How can you rent a house when you have only one pound a week in the world ? ’ |
| 29 | When Madeleine did not reply , he continued eagerly , ‘ They 'd give us m-married quarters , but if you d-did n't like them , we could rent a house — whatever t-took your fancy . ’ |
| 30 | A few days ago , it emerged that the Hillcrest Housing Association intended to purchase , repair and rent a house locally for the family . |