Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was jumping round the house . |
| 2 | Before I was elected to the House , I worked as a solicitor in a law centre in Leicester where I dealt with many immigration cases . |
| 3 | I spect he was pretty angry about t tell him I was living at the house with Marie . |
| 4 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 5 | I was directed to the house that had formerly been the inn and was admitted for an overnight stay with supper , bed and breakfast . |
| 6 | I was returning to the house with a mixing drum when I heard the crash . |
| 7 | Mr speaker I beg to move that the draft European parliamentary constituency 's England order nineteen ninety four erm the draft European parliamentary constituency 's Wales order nineteen ninety four which were laid before the house on the twentieth of January together with the draft European parliamentary election changes to the franchise and qualification of representatives regulations nineteen ninety four which were laid on the second of February , be approved . |
| 8 | Sara discovered that they were to travel in two large buses which were parked outside the house . |
| 9 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 10 | The Committee recommended that , pending further review , the somewhat complicated administrative and financial arrangements which were endorsed by the House and used during the experiment should continue until 31 July 1991 . |
| 11 | The Government recognise the importance of personal conscience in this context and included a measure of protection for existing shop workers against being made to work on Sundays in the Shops Bill which was debated by the House in 1986 . |
| 12 | This latter one puts right a mistake in the description of the basis for distributing the distributable amount for ninety three four which was approved by the house on the eighth of February nineteen ninety three . |
| 13 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 14 | For almost every railway line built by the different railway companies — permission for which was passed by the House in different eras — we laid down different procedures . |
| 15 | The digger , which was parked at the house after being repaired , was dumped 350 yards away . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , I had written a play which was performed within the house and was enjoyed by all concerned in it . |
| 17 | I am concerned about the contents of , lack of objectivity of and lack of thoroughness in the study that was carried out by the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. for the Government and the promoters of the Bill , Cardiff Bay development corporation , when there was still a private Bill , in preparation for the Government 's hybrid Bill , which was laid before the House on Tuesday . |
| 18 | and they thought that he was the accomplice sitting outside while somebody was going round the house . |
| 19 | Were these people who were staying at the house ? |
| 20 | Bagehot exaggerated when he described the middle classes as " the despotic power in England " but there is no doubt that the balance of power tilted away from the large landowners that dominated the House of Lords and towards the industrialists who were represented in the House of Commons . |
| 21 | The male inmates who were accommodated in the House would be better off in a more suitable institution . |
| 22 | Ah , right well let's say you were born in the house you live in |
| 23 | If you were missing from the house overnight , I would be worried . |
| 24 | He played loud music if she was writing in the house . |
| 25 | She was towed into the house as before and taken straight to the nursery despite Mrs Chamberlin 's protests that dressed like this they should take Miss Abbott to the drawing-room , the parlour at least , she insisted — ; |
| 26 | He 's a young lad who was employed in the house here , living in . |
| 27 | The girl died after she and her 11-year-old sister , their eight-year-old brother and a 16year-old girl who was babysitting at the house , in Emlyn Road , Mayhill , Swansea , were rescued and taken to hospital . |
| 28 | Ignored by the guard , who was running towards the house after being startled into wakefulness , the Doctor eyed the cloud of grey smoke critically , wondering how much damage would have been done to the villa itself . |
| 29 | ‘ We were shown over the house . |
| 30 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |