Example sentences of "through the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | First you have to dig out all the junk , bag it up and probably lug it through the house . |
| 2 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 3 | All three girls were dressing and their youthful excitement pulsed through the house . |
| 4 | The case would be pursued through the House of Lords , ‘ but we recognise that our best hope is in the European Court of Human Rights . ’ |
| 5 | Then I made one last journey through the house , the precincts , and the gardens , to see that all was as it should be , and to say goodbye . |
| 6 | He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt . |
| 7 | They went through the house like so many screaming wheelbarrows , soon to be silenced by men with sharp knives and rubber aprons and boots that did not slip on the bloodied floor . |
| 8 | He knew he had not been dozing very long because the smells of fried bacon and toasted bread still drifted through the house . |
| 9 | It occurred to him that he had not worn his best clothes for many weeks ; not since that confusing afternoon when some of Buddie 's friends had rushed through the house carrying boxes , cases and sacks that must not be discovered when the police came to search the place . |
| 10 | If Rosie was released from her collar and chain , she would charge through the house and grounds like a homicidal maniac in search of something to destroy . |
| 11 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 12 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 13 | Many of these songs — Reach Out I 'll Be There , Just My Imagination , It 's the Same Old Song , Ai n't Too Proud to Beg — are over 25 years old and yet they still send an intoxicating gust of fresh air through the house . |
| 14 | It will mean constant uncertainty in the new parliament over which policies can be pushed through the House of Commons , and a constant pre-occupation with which minor parties might decide to vote down legislation , and when . |
| 15 | Every time he had been led through the house previously , it had been different . |
| 16 | He began searching through the house gathering clothes and other things he wanted to take with him . |
| 17 | I have looked through the house , hoping to find him but all the rooms are empty . |
| 18 | In the first section Mira climbs through the house describing various rooms and corridors . |
| 19 | Miss Kenton was already leading the way , and we hurried through the house up to my father 's small attic room . |
| 20 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 21 | Soon there are delicious smells wafting through the house . |
| 22 | He was buried in a war grave and the little boy who ran through the house in Forres waving a wooden sword now had a wooden cross with his name on it in Belgium . |
| 23 | But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons . |
| 24 | Such a setting , as Coleridge acknowledges in the poem , he might once have sought out to echo the mood of a ‘ sad gloom-pamper 'd Man ’ ; but now his descriptions of the sea breeze moaning through the house , the thunder of the ‘ onward-surging tides ’ and the watchfire shining out from Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel , are powerfully transformed by the central fact of his love for Sara , and become part of a vast natural counterpoint to intimate and far from gloomy thoughts . |
| 25 | During its passage through the House of Commons , however , an amendment was introduced by spokesmen for groups of employers , and reluctantly accepted by Fisher , which postponed for seven years the continuation class clauses for those aged between 16 and 18 . |
| 26 | He could hear the wind moaning through the house . |
| 27 | The second Bill had passed through the House of Commons only to be thrown out by the House of Lords which could reject all legislation except money bills . |
| 28 | It was not an easy task for the coalman to make deliveries as he had to lump one hundredweight sacks , right through the house , down three steps , duck to miss the top of the door frame to the scullery , then a mighty heave to deposit coal costing one shilling a hundredweight in the exact spot . |
| 29 | And they pulled this and it must have been leading right under the doorway through the house , and they pulled it right across the roadway , still sticking under the door . |
| 30 | That awaits the passage of the World Heritage ( Properties Protection ) Bill , which has already been passed by the Senate and is now guaranteed an easy passage through the House of Representatives . |