Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with his second mutiny in barely a day Jones agreed , though insisting his men must not search or damage the house but merely demand the family silver . |
| 2 | They revel in annoying mortals and playing practical jokes , particularly by using their magical picks and shovels to relocate planted seeds or undermine a house 's foundations . |
| 3 | The Ego wants us to develop talents and acquire knowledge , not for the sheer joy and challenge of playing the clarinet , reading Proust or rewiring the house , but so that we will be flattered and admired . |
| 4 | They can not afford to rent or buy a house elsewhere and they do not have the qualifications or skills to move , so they are , essentially , trapped . |
| 5 | The police are anxious to hear from anyone who has lived in or visited the house recently or who knows of anyone who has done so . |
| 6 | Other people may decide to buy or rent a house or flat in a modern purpose-built sheltered or clustered estate . |
| 7 | Neither , if you value your privacy and security , should you buy or rent a house on the end of a road where the public pavement runs alongside your house and garden . |
| 8 | This was , and is , a particularly sensitive area for the average solicitor for their monopoly could be recognised by any member of the public and was a highly visible cost to anyone buying or selling a house . |
| 9 | Even Francis Fairlie , the man they all joke about because he can never make up his mind to marry or to start a serious career or to buy a house or to do anything else that may define and announce his character to the world — even Francis Fairlie has managed to get himself here ! |
| 10 | It 's not the sort of creativity involved in painting a picture or designing a house . |
| 11 | She may fall ill , or have an accident while you were out , or set the house on fire and herself , so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping . |
| 12 | There was no sign of either an agent or a man watching or approaching the house . |
| 13 | When the hearings came on , they explained , they would run upstairs and lock the door , or try to switch channels , or read the comics , or tidy the house . |
| 14 | These developments will help all those buying a home , moving house or taking a house to rent to choose dwellings that will not only save money on their fuel bills , but help to improve the environment . |
| 15 | This suggests he is worried that those who can might rather walk the dog or paint the house than work for miminal benefit . |
| 16 | We deride our democracy and itch to find ways of improving it , such as proportional representation or abolishing the House of Lords . |
| 17 | They also thought that pressures from other commitments meant that it would be impossible to provide the sort of supervision recommended or free the house officers to take advantage of the scheme . |
| 18 | Staircases are things to consider carefully when buying or renting a house . |
| 19 | Employees moving from an unfurnished flatlet or room to similar accommodation at the new base or who rent or buy a house at the new location receive a grant of £438 . |
| 20 | For these reasons , people buy food and drink , pay rent or buy a house , purchase insurance , and meet up with their friends in clubs , pubs , churches , professional institutions and so on . |
| 21 | Also on view are money-saving underfloor heating , low energy glass in a high-technology conservatory and the latest in timber-frame and block construction for designing , extending or renovating a house . |
| 22 | Around the main house were many smaller buildings , all white with the same red-tiled roofs that made the house so elegant . |
| 23 | And this pillock that owned the house later painted over it with emulsion . |
| 24 | And the Park was being beautifully maintained ; the trees were not being needlessly felled ; the formal garden that girdled the house retained all its statuary . … |
| 25 | Beyond the few meadows on this apron of land that girdled the house on the lochside , the hills rose again , hills as individual and familiar to her as people , whose slopes and habits she knew intimately , walking them year in , year out with her father , the gun he had taught her to use broken carefully in the crook of her arm . |
| 26 | The thought of his busy mowing , so useless and so trivial as a defence against the disaster that encircled the house and their silly lives overcame her . |
| 27 | They had both slowly turned their heads , which were now very close as they stared to where a grassy bank rose to a narrow stretch of woodland that bordered the house gardens . |
| 28 | You certainly had to be tough to live at Tullivers after the Admiral had gone , for Lucy Trigg , in her eighties , could not be bothered to have any domestic help , nor could she be bothered to light fires , to cook meals for herself , nor to clean the house and tend the garden . |
| 29 | Day that shook the House of Windsor |
| 30 | Bagehot exaggerated when he described the middle classes as " the despotic power in England " but there is no doubt that the balance of power tilted away from the large landowners that dominated the House of Lords and towards the industrialists who were represented in the House of Commons . |