Example sentences of "[vb past] in the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three girls and two boys from Germany helped in the house and the office and another boy worked in the garden . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 5 | I had never known that world and I wondered how Olga felt , consigning me to it while she luxuriated in the house . |
| 6 | For eating purposes Orkney Cheddar is pretty soapy and bears no resemblance whatever to a cheese actually brought from the Orkneys which I once tasted in the house of Edinburgh friends of mine . |
| 7 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 8 | Up to three grenades exploded in the House of Representatives on July 10 , two hours before a memorial service for opposition leader Marc Atti Depe , who had been killed during the attack on Olympio . |
| 9 | In his horror at what happened in the House of Commons , he started to speak in favour of the motion . |
| 10 | As I stated in the house during the debate on the seventh of er July , the plant commission established by the Labour party to look into electoral systems proposed as one of its many recommendations , a system of proportional representation , the regional list system for the European parliament . |
| 11 | On May 9 Labour leader Neil Kinnock claimed in the House of Commons that the reforms meant that the clinical needs of patients were coming second to commercial considerations . |
| 12 | Documentation was passed on to the Director of Public Prosecutions but Prime minister John Major indicated in the House of Commons on May 19 that the government would take no further action , while the US Defence Department stated on May 19 that it considered the case closed . |
| 13 | The bland self-satisfaction of the shipowners and their refusal to accept the need for reforms of any kind had been familiar enough to Samuel Plimsoll and other friends of the merchant seamen and exposed in the House of Commons for upwards of half a century . |
| 14 | The Minister may recall that it is almost a year since I first raised in the House the matter of the proposed incinerator in Renfrew . |
| 15 | But I have never had this opinion of Edward Wood challenged in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Nine of the 40 others who lived in the houses were injured . |
| 17 | At his house , Hogarth provided for himself , a painting room over the stable ; his wife , her widowed mother , Hogarth 's sister , Anne , and a young cousin , Mary Lewis , lived in the house for many years . |
| 18 | At different times Jan Werich the actor and Vladimír Holan the poet also lived in the house . |
| 19 | In North America , emphasis is now placed not only on art history but also on what is termed ‘ material culture ’ — that is , everything pertaining to the lives and activities of all those who lived in the house . |
| 20 | Her 20-year-old son , Michael , who worked as an engineer , also lived in the house . |
| 21 | One of his alleged accomplices lived in the house of the headman of the village where the theft took place . |
| 22 | Stukeley lived in the house where the king is supposed to have stayed and his fertility of imagination and lack of sources encourage suspicion . |
| 23 | Three schoolmasters lived in the house : one taught Latin , one mathematics and one music . |
| 24 | The daughter of a Cambridge bookbinder lived in the house for a year to teach binding and gilding . |
| 25 | The Boston artist Lilla Cabot Perry lived in the house adjacent to Monet 's at Giverny for twelve years , receiving tips on gardening as well as useful advice on painting , and proved an enthusiastic ambassador for the Impressionists back in the States . |
| 26 | She lived in the house . |
| 27 | Everyone who lived in the house was there , and so were a number of other friends and neighbours of Doris 's . |
| 28 | The fighting cocks lived in the house with us , sleeping under their owners sarongs , and periodically exploded , at all hours , with stentorian " cock-a-doodle-doos " — or , rather , their Indonesian equivalent , for here , of course , the animals speak differently . |
| 29 | He knew his nieces lived in the house . |
| 30 | How many people lived in the house ? |