Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , her thoughts of a good omen continued to prove false , because no sooner had she raised the knocker than the door was wrenched open , and a young woman emerged backwards , still talking to someone inside the house . |
| 2 | Mr Jackson says that maybe someone in the house can look after him . |
| 3 | ‘ But in those days there was always someone in the house , and when were you ever content to sit with your feet on a footstool never moving a finger ? ’ |
| 4 | The wine and the excitement of having someone in the house to talk to . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's someone in the house ! |
| 6 | While he looked the back door opened , and a woman came out , calling over her shoulder to someone in the house , as she came . |
| 7 | Everyone knew that its sound portended the death of someone in the house within the year . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe someone in the house is in love , ’ suggested his wife . |
| 9 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 10 | The Substitute knocked again smartly , but the Brigadier appeared in the doorway of the stable and called up : ‘ There 'll be nobody in the house at this hour ! ’ |
| 11 | Nobody in the House would work for £80 a week . |
| 12 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 13 | ‘ Or that somebody in the house wanted to give that impression . ’ |
| 14 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 15 | Which meant we 'd always got somebody in the house , sort of baby-sitting really . |
| 16 | Well , the person who 's dropping him off might just check that there actually is somebody in the house , you know , so do you know how to work the television ? |
| 17 | to tell me there was somebody in the house |
| 18 | In Carmina Gadelica ( 1900 ) , Alexander Carmichael notes that ‘ St John 's wort is one of the few plants still cherished by the people to ward away second-sight , enchantment , witchcraft , evil eye , and death , and to ensure peace and plenty in the house , increase and prosperity in the field , and growth and fruition in the field ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's plenty in the house . |
| 20 | There 's nobody at the house . |
| 21 | If you 've none in the house you ca n't smoke them . |
| 22 | There er , there is none in the house |
| 23 | ‘ The one about the house . ’ |
| 24 | She did everything about the house . |
| 25 | Everything about the house and its furnishings is big and very bright . |
| 26 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 27 | Everything inside the house is beige or dark brown or faded pastel ; good but slightly worn ; human but impersonal . |
| 28 | " If he wanted something in the house and I did n't have it he 'd say , " What did you do with all the money ? " |
| 29 | My mother obviously found something in the house . |
| 30 | And this , this comment about that they think you 've got something in the house worth pinching does n't really come into it . |