Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | 522 , the plaintiff sued the defendant , a Member of Parliament , for an alleged libel on television and sought to introduce evidence of what the defendant had said in the House of Commons as proof of malice . |
| 2 | Mum came rushing into the house one evening . |
| 3 | Anyway , one lady came came to the house whilst I was here and she said oh it 's not quite what I want . |
| 4 | The work had begun near the house , loosening the appearance of the stiff formal terraces with small shrubs , roses and plants . |
| 5 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 6 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 7 | James I believed that ‘ Kings were breathing images of God upon earth ’ and he insisted on lecturing Parliament , so the relationship between King and Parliament steadily deteriorated and much of the political initiative began to pass from the House of Lords to the House of Commons . |
| 8 | There was a terrifying rumbling noise and the stairs shook as though a minor earthquake had passed beneath the house . |
| 9 | Is it not a fact that everyone in the Home Office associated with this case has been properly advised by qualified lawyers , that the facts that my right hon. Friend had produced to the House today are not in dispute and that the issue is one of constitutional importance only ? |
| 10 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 11 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 12 | She said the woman had lived in the house for about nine years and the man for about two . |
| 13 | But before she could open her mouth another familiar voice came floating from the house behind him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Minister said earlier today that he hoped it would be accepted that the Government had come to the House in good faith . |
| 16 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |
| 17 | Still stuck on the track within sight of Janice Rae 's flat , I got up out of my seat , took down my bag and fished out the file mum had brought from the house . |
| 18 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
| 19 | I later found out that the school had enquired at the house after the girl 's continued absence and been given some plausible excuse for it by the father . |
| 20 | ‘ In the meantime , my dad had arrived at the house and spotted two men hanging around the ditched vehicle . |
| 21 | By this time , Joan had married Edward Young , an architect in Lulling known to the Bassetts since childhood , and the young couple had lived in the house ever since . |
| 22 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 23 | A handgun had fired in the house . |
| 24 | The atmosphere had gone from the house . |
| 25 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |