Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 2 | Jeffrey , 51 , commutes between the house he shares with his wife , Mary , a university don , and their children William and James , in Granchester near Cambridge , and his London penthouse . |
| 3 | Jeffrey , 51 , commutes between the house he shares with his wife , Mary , a university don , and their children William and James , in Granchester near Cambridge , and his London penthouse . |
| 4 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 5 | Why had n't she arranged for the house to be sold so that Fabien de Rochefort could at least be repaid to some extent ? |
| 6 | When the surviving Romanovs asked for the house where the Tsar was killed to be turned into a museum , Yeltsin and his Politburo colleagues had it demolished . |
| 7 | Arriving at the podium to a standing ovation , Jesse asked for the house lights to be raised — ‘ so that I may speak unto the people ’ . |
| 8 | and he probably had n't paid that much anyway so he has to go out the house |
| 9 | The silenced shot exploded upwards towards Liz Spalding as her own shot thundered through the house . |
| 10 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 11 | The cradle was especially designed for the house . |
| 12 | He was a mysterious man who wandered about the house at all hours but was very rarely seen . |
| 13 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't fancy having a lot of kids tearing about the house , but , having brought up my own , I did n't feel I had an excuse . |
| 15 | Cranston bellowed , not caring if his voice carried through the house , out into the enclosed courtyard where craftsmen were working . |
| 16 | The case would be pursued through the House of Lords , ‘ but we recognise that our best hope is in the European Court of Human Rights . ’ |
| 17 | Outside , the storm howled about the house as though a pack of wild wolves were trying to get in . |
| 18 | For a song , too , because he had not been able to bear the thought of going back , meeting a valuer , walking about the house , picking things off shelves and out of cupboards . |
| 19 | It circled round her as she moved through the house and sometimes it settled in the look of pure hatred that emanated from her mother 's eyes when they rested on her . |
| 20 | I have looked through the house , hoping to find him but all the rooms are empty . |
| 21 | Then , without a backward glance , she headed for the house . |
| 22 | The difficulties associated with the introduction of the community charge were not caused by the time taken for the Bill to pass through the House , but by the fact that a large number of regulations relating to the charge were passed close to its introduction . |
| 23 | By allowing the Bill to pass through the House unamended in respect of premium rate services , they are condoning everything that is being done by those who for the past six years have been offering pornographic ’ services ’ . |
| 24 | The second eldest , a girl , looks after the house and the rest of the children . |
| 25 | The two-year-old wandered out the house at dawn dressed in mum Michelle 's high heels and nightie . |
| 26 | In the pictures I was ‘ seeing , ’ Lord Lucan was walking past the house — then he walked back and went in . |
| 27 | She raced from the barn and fled towards the house with a very red face , especially as she heard his amused and taunting laughter . |
| 28 | Scrambling down from the mound of sand , Garry began walking towards the houses , his hands and knees stained orange . |
| 29 | They got out of the car and headed towards the house . |
| 30 | The gallery canopy roof , which adjoins the house , is very old and lies below the house roof . |