Example sentences of "at every house " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder they like a dram at every house . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In the old days of walking and bicycles , you would walk down from your house to the village and stop at every house on the way for talk . |
| 3 | For young people under 18 the problem is tremendous , since to compile a list of such people would require a complete canvas of an area simply asking at every house for details of the under-18s . |
| 4 | Getting more and more desperate , Perdita stopped at every house and scoured every field . |
| 5 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 6 | She never found the baby and leaves gifts at every house where there are children , just in case the Christ Child lives there . |