Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be punishment waiting for him when he got back to the house . |
| 2 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 3 | Habit shouldered curiosity out of the way for a moment when he got back to the house , and he checked around the Mercedes for damage . |
| 4 | He always did sooner or later , the telltale grass stains easy to see when he got back to the house , leading to ridicule . |
| 5 | He staggered back inside the house . |
| 6 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 7 | He came up to the house that evening , armed with the music box and the monkey . |
| 8 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 9 | He came back to the house crying his eyes out . ’ |
| 10 | He nodded back towards the house . |
| 11 | ‘ Put some rugs on her , ’ he ordered Perdita , as he raced back into the house . |
| 12 | The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it . |
| 13 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 14 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 15 | He walked out of the house . |
| 16 | He walked back into the house . |
| 17 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 18 | He glanced back at the house and she wondered who was in the kitchen . |
| 19 | Walking past her , his stride long and rangy , he went on into the house . |
| 20 | I saw him take a look at the boat-house first , then , when I suppose he saw you were n't home , he went up towards the house , and after a bit he came back with a bag , you know , like Santa Claus , slung over his shoulder . |
| 21 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
| 22 | So saying , he strode out of the house . |
| 23 | He looked up at the house , at your mother and me in the doorway . |
| 24 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 25 | He ran back into the house , shouted up to Mrs Clamp , then put me on the table in the kitchen and used some towels to stop the bleeding as best he could . |
| 26 | He ran out of the house . |
| 27 | One dark-haired man in a business suit he recognized as he hurried back inside the house . |
| 28 | He hurried out of the house and towards the place which he had not visited for so long . |
| 29 | I 'm going to find them , if it 's the last thing I do ! ’ he said to me , and he hurried out of the house . |
| 30 | He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house . |