Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not an easy task for the coalman to make deliveries as he had to lump one hundredweight sacks , right through the house , down three steps , duck to miss the top of the door frame to the scullery , then a mighty heave to deposit coal costing one shilling a hundredweight in the exact spot . |
| 2 | I go right through the house . |
| 3 | He went right through the house when he arrived home but there was no sign of Gwen ; nor of anyone else . |
| 4 | Joanne , who works at Bookers store in Llandudno Junction , and Maurice , 25 , who works for Mochdre Garage , returned home on Thursday night to find water running right through the house . |
| 5 | Yes and he , he said to Norman do you want these , he bought them for somewhere for the house |
| 6 | If you , too , have a dust-covered garter bar somewhere about the house that you are feeling guilty about , you might like to find it again , dust if off and try the following techniques : |
| 7 | And in fact I 've got a photograph of all the somewhere about the house . |
| 8 | It was not until they moved to Brisbane that life became settled enough for a house to hold much significance . |
| 9 | He went swiftly through the house , still holding the piece of piping . |
| 10 | Ruth heard no more , going swiftly through the house and down into the basement . |
| 11 | Today she was hungry only for the house . |
| 12 | Stripped of all the trimmings , the plot depends finally on one " trick " , causing the reader to assume that an ignorant servant could not possibly be the writer of the elaborate legal phraseology of the threatening notes , whereas in fact the fellow has copied the phrases from the legal paraphernalia all about the house . |
| 13 | His head jerked round and he was just in time to see the pack stream out from the bushes only thirty yards away , noses still glued to the invisible trail they were following , and lope swiftly towards the house . |
| 14 | Bagehot argued that " the relation of Parliament , and especially of the House of Commons , to the executive government is the specific peculiarity of our Constitution " , and he made the point that " the efficient secret of the English constitution may be described as the close union , the nearly complete fusion , of the executive and legislative powers " . |
| 15 | The government 's taxing agents , the Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise officials , levy taxes only with the House of Commons ' approval . |
| 16 | They were all on their feet now and running from the kitchen , the two women following Frank through the garden , through the woodland and so into the house . |
| 17 | Hands shaking , I walked deeper into the house , Benjamin behind me . |
| 18 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 19 | ( His counterpart in Manchester received £220 , together with a house ) . |
| 20 | My authority went out to tender to test prices long before the House thought about it . |
| 21 | Suddenly from every house , from the beached ships , from every garden wall MacIans were leaping out . |
| 22 | By convention these will all be members of Parliament although not necessarily from the House of Commons . |
| 23 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 24 | The government 's formal reply to these reports is presented to Parliament by the Treasury in the form of a Treasury minute , and the reports and minutes are debated annually in the House . |
| 25 | I could n't bear the thought of hearing that voice again — the low , small voice like that of a child alone in a house at night . |
| 26 | ‘ To put it in words of one syllable , ’ he said , each word encased in ice , ‘ we are a man and a woman shut up together alone in a house , separated from all other humans by a stretch of Atlantic . |
| 27 | ‘ And me all alone in the house since my son went to England . |
| 28 | I thought of Angela Brickell and of all the afternoons Perkin had spent alone in the house . |
| 29 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |
| 30 | The rector , as he had intended , found Dimity alone in the house , for he had observed Ella striding towards Lulling Woods , basket in hand , and had remembered that this was the day on which the eggs were collected . |