Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the surviving Romanovs asked for the house where the Tsar was killed to be turned into a museum , Yeltsin and his Politburo colleagues had it demolished . |
| 2 | Arriving at the podium to a standing ovation , Jesse asked for the house lights to be raised — ‘ so that I may speak unto the people ’ . |
| 3 | The silenced shot exploded upwards towards Liz Spalding as her own shot thundered through the house . |
| 4 | He was a mysterious man who wandered about the house at all hours but was very rarely seen . |
| 5 | Outside , the storm howled about the house as though a pack of wild wolves were trying to get in . |
| 6 | It circled round her as she moved through the house and sometimes it settled in the look of pure hatred that emanated from her mother 's eyes when they rested on her . |
| 7 | Then , without a backward glance , she headed for the house . |
| 8 | The two-year-old wandered out the house at dawn dressed in mum Michelle 's high heels and nightie . |
| 9 | She raced from the barn and fled towards the house with a very red face , especially as she heard his amused and taunting laughter . |
| 10 | They got out of the car and headed towards the house . |
| 11 | Very carefully and quietly I moved towards the house . |
| 12 | Sarah smiled and as they drew near the house , Terry approached them . |
| 13 | ‘ Horton and West moved into the house . |
| 14 | Since Kate , Peter and Walter moved into the house , which incorporates the 12th-century priory walls , a ghostly but very palpable waft of snuffed candles and burning incense has thrice been known to signify benediction on St Peter 's day . |
| 15 | Edouard moved into the house at St-Cloud alone . |
| 16 | When the Bishops moved into the house 10 years ago , it had been on the market for 18 months and had become very run down . |
| 17 | ‘ After my uncle 's death , my father moved into the house . |
| 18 | And you moved into the house in nineteen fifty |
| 19 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
| 20 | ‘ Bye , dreema , ’ she said suddenly and turned and fled into the house . |
| 21 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 22 | He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs . |
| 23 | Three girls and two boys from Germany helped in the house and the office and another boy worked in the garden . |
| 24 | Within twenty-four hours of the publication of the Report , Boyle rose in the House of Commons to announce that its recommendations on the scale of necessary expansion were accepted by the Government , that funds were being made available to cover the next ten years , including £650,000,000 for capital expenditure on building by universities . |
| 25 | That last evening , as unable to settle I wandered round the house , the computer within which insists on running hither and thither matching like with like ( laying its finds before us like a cat presenting a dead mouse ) now threw up the words of a hymn from long ago . |
| 26 | Louise had been like Alice once , and now she wandered round the house like a wraith , her mind never at rest . |
| 27 | Eventually in 1858 Earl Stanhope moved in the House of Lords that the Queen should be petitioned by Parliament to remove from the Prayer Book the services which commemorated not only the death of Charles I but also the accession of Charles II in 1660 , the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 , and the landing of William of Orange in 1688 . |
| 28 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 29 | In the violent argument which followed , Coleridge was prevented from running at his brother with a knife by the return of their mother , and then fled from the house , still in an ‘ agony of passion ’ , stopping only when he reached a hill overlooking the River Otter a mile from the town . |
| 30 | The siege began on Sunday afternoon after Leanne 's mother , Pauline Rees , 43 , was shot in her head as she fled from the house . |