Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
| 2 | In the 1850s a wing was added to the house ( which has since been neatly demolished ) , with twenty-two bedrooms . |
| 3 | Much has been added to the house over the years and today , with its elegant 18th-century front rooms , there is little to remind one of its humble beginnings . |
| 4 | Seldom a telegram came and nobody liked to see one come to a house . |
| 5 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |
| 6 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 7 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |
| 8 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 9 | I am a recipient of Public Lending Right and I have come to the House tonight to say thank you to honourable members who were here in 1979 , when the legislation was passed . ’ |
| 10 | The girl herself was free , and had come to the house through the offices of a steward . |
| 11 | One might point out that this morning he issued to the press a 20-page document which he still has not come to the House to answer for . |
| 12 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 13 | Since they had come to the house she had grown progressively calmer , more relaxed . |
| 14 | I am sorry that I so rattled the Prime Minister with my question at the previous Prime Minister 's Question Time that he has not come to the House today . |
| 15 | We understand why he had come to the House today to denounce freeloading for the rich . |
| 16 | I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident . |
| 17 | The Minister said earlier today that he hoped it would be accepted that the Government had come to the House in good faith . |
| 18 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 19 | Tyne Thames Technology ( T3 ) was set up in early 1989 with funding from computer company North Tyneside Brass Tacks , BITC 's city action team and the Telethon Trust , and a secondee from Northumbria Water , to develop home- and remote-working opportunities for people confined to the house . |
| 20 | In 1835 she succumbed to a form of pre-senile dementia and for the last two decades of her life was confined to the house and terrace of Rydal Mount . |
| 21 | The Committee had four more meetings and reported to the House of Commons on 18th July , 1856 . |
| 22 | Later it enters the report stage , when any amendments made during the committee stage are reported to the House . |
| 23 | On 28 August 1651 , while Alured was evidently on his deathbed , James Chaloner [ q.v. ] , the Yorkshire MP , reported to the House that Alured was owed £8,769 and asked for it to be paid . |
| 24 | The two meetings on which I have reported to the House have shown our determination to work for a safer world and a new partnership with Russia in the cause of peace . |
| 25 | In a joint memorandum addressed to a House of Lords Select Committee , the DoE and MAFF detailed a series of objections to the plan . |
| 26 | It is an honour to follow the remarks addressed to the House by the hon. Member for Belfast , South ( Rev. Martin Smyth ) . |
| 27 | SCIENTISTS , doctors , lawyers , accountants , journalists , newsagents — indeed anyone who stores the names and addresses of business contacts on a personal computer or word processor — could find themselves committing a criminal offence if government plans for data protection , presented to the House of Commons this week , becomes law . |
| 28 | The Great Education Reform Bill that had been presented to the House of Commons seven months earlier with the soubriquet of ‘ GERBIL ’ had , like gerbils , grown . |
| 29 | Between 1870 and 1885 , 17,367 petitions against the Acts , with 2,606,429 signatures were presented to the House of Commons , and over 900 public meetings were held by supporters of repeal . |
| 30 | The main estimates are presented to the House of Commons in March . |