Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 2 | She ran down through the house and dashed out into the street . |
| 3 | The kitchen door stood open revealing a strip of bumpy grass and yellow sandy gravel wide enough for a coach and four to turn in between the House and the stable block . |
| 4 | It was not only that , by 1837 , the structure and contents of houses had begun to change as a result of early mass production , but that society itself had undergone a ( technically ) peaceful revolution , incidentally undermining the consensus that the middle-class house was a scaling down of the houses of the great . |
| 5 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 6 | Because such houses set the standard , those who write upon architecture in the eighteenth century and Regency invariably regard houses of moderate size for more limited means as a scaling down of the houses of the great . |
| 7 | Indeed , he states quite unequivocally , ‘ in such dwellings every labourer ought to live , and any nobleman might live ’ In the following decade , Pugin also enquires why the middle-class dwelling should be regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , for ‘ the smaller detached houses which the present state of society has generated , should possess a peculiar character : they are only objectionable when made to appear diminutive representations of larger structures ’ . |
| 8 | Today all three ‘ get along like a house on fire ’ . |
| 9 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 10 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw that he and Simone were getting along like a house on fire . |
| 11 | Sadly , this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards . |
| 12 | ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’ |
| 13 | Getting sucked down into the house and the house things and the babyworld and the child-world and the cooking-world and the shopping-world . |
| 14 | I saw people running down from the house , I heard some shots , but that was all . |
| 15 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 16 | An early day motion has also been put down in the House of Commons supporting their case . |
| 17 | She was pacing up and down in the house , was hostile to other family members and was shouting at voices that she ( and no-one else ) heard . |
| 18 | He showed him how to make out his expenses chits , filling in ‘ Office duties , 5s. 6d. ’ for each day of the week , as laid down in the house agreement between union and management . |
| 19 | Evan Campbell , or John Hay , or Laughland Vass , or perhaps all three Highlander guides , knew that milk could be had from the Macraes of Auchnasheal ; the travellers sat down outside a house and were brought wooden dishes — Johnson calls them ‘ pails ’ — of milk . |
| 20 | I 'd often come across one or other of the twins , squatting down outside the house , with the red bitch hovering by , waiting to eat the faeces . |
| 21 | And , anyway , I only cruised up and down outside the house twice just to make sure there was no one lying in wait . |
| 22 | Of course , 10 years ago it was quite a lot of money but all it enabled me to do was move out of a flat in London , put a deposit down on a house and start a family . |
| 23 | At that moment ‘ a white light shone forth like a sword ’ from Gandalf , as many people see ‘ the light that shone ’ round Éowyn and Faramir as they come down to the Houses of Healing . |
| 24 | Going on down to the house with a posy of cowslips , she was aware of that rare feeling of happiness that comes with youth and the first stirrings of love . |
| 25 | ‘ I think Stephen wanted James to see the site first thing this morning before you took us down to the house , ’ Elaine said , and helped herself to a warm bun which she tore open , spreading it thickly with butter and lime jelly . |
| 26 | Tell you what — get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I 'll run down to the house for something . " |
| 27 | Is it in order for a Minister to lay down to the House how the Chairman of the Committee that has been established will decide how the debates in Committee will take place ? |
| 28 | then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow . |
| 29 | Well that 's it , it 's when we moved down to the house |
| 30 | Well she always used to say , why you do n't say anything , but she always used to say to , she 'd never come down to the house , I mean I do n't think she 's been to my house , house five times |