Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Ah , right well let's say you were born in the house you live in |
| 8 | If you were missing from the house overnight , I would be worried . |
| 9 | He played loud music if she was writing in the house . |
| 10 | 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 — ; |
| 11 | ‘ We were shown over the house . |
| 12 | They were followed around the house as they washed and dressed , but the social workers were stopped by Mrs H from going upstairs to get the children up . |
| 13 | They were kept in the house overnight and yesterday morning one was told to go to work as normal at the west Belfast shop . |
| 14 | They were staying in the house and were joined almost daily by a number of their friends on holiday on the coast . |
| 15 | They were moving nearer the house all the time and by one o'clock they had finished the field . |
| 16 | They were walking round the house speculating as to what they should sell and had paused here in this far from gloomy room , this warm , sunny , charming room , and laughed at that gloomy picture , at its sentimental naivety . |
| 17 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 18 | The DIY was given a lower priority from then on but , even when they were working on the house , the mood changed enormously . |
| 19 | They were left in the house in Ystradgynlais , near Swansea , by a previous tenant who kept 16 non-poisonous species as pets . |
| 20 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 21 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 22 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 23 | Twelve bedsteads were urgently required and were ordered from Messrs. Kilpin and Leach ; the mattresses and ticking for them were obtained from the House of Industry . |
| 24 | Moreover , it was accepted by the House of Lords that if the sellers had not known that the herring meal was to be used as food , no condition of fitness for purpose would have been implied . |
| 25 | It was announced in the House of Commons on 26th February 1975 that the current restrictions on agricultural rents should cease to operate from 28th May 1975 . |
| 26 | Assemblies of protest , it was said in the House of Lords debate ( Lord Beloff ) , should receive less support than in the past . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it was brought before the House , Baldwin came down , spoke movingly of ‘ our young King and Queen ’ who were about to ‘ dedicate themselves to the service of their people ’ , and pulled out , gently and without tension , all his old stops about industrial peace , democracy and the avoidance of strife . |
| 28 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 29 | It was approved by the House of Representatives on Dec. 8 , 1989 , with only the socialist Cyprus National Democratic Union ( EDEK ) voting against , following the introduction of cuts ranging from $13,500,000 to the ordinary budget and of $132,480 to the refugee relief fund . |
| 30 | The House refused leave to appeal in Lipman , and it was approved by the House in Majewski [ 1977 ] AC 433 . |