Example sentences of "[adv] in a house " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Political differences were minimized and a wide variety of outside speakers invited to address the group at monthly intervals when Parliament was sitting , normally in a House of Commons Committee Room . |
| 4 | They lived comfortably in a house built in King Edward 's reign . |
| 5 | When at work , even in a house , do not tolerate interference . |
| 6 | A woman here in a house like this , I do n't blame you being wary . |
| 7 | Grandmother lived there in a house that looked over the water , but she 's dead now . ’ |
| 8 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 9 | Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |