Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various children , with whom both of them were very good , were about the house in profusion . |
| 2 | Only when they were within the house , in the timber-scented darkness of the staircase , did she halt to kindle a light . |
| 3 | The kids were in the house and Daddy was up in the roof throwing bikes down . |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs Cecil 's departure was preceded by such an entire sinking of her constitution and by an exhaustion tending so much to lethargy that she was seldom able to converse … and it was a peculiar favour to herself and daughters that Mr Simeon and her excellent son were in the house and watched for every reviving moment to pray or converse with her in all holy tenderness , till she ceased to breathe . ’ |
| 5 | All three of the above were in the House of Lords when they formed their ministries , so the distinction of being the first elected politician with a K to become Prime Minister is still available . |
| 6 | When Jack and Alison were in the house together by day they were in the studio ( where Jack was supposed to be teaching Alison to paint ) or else in the drawing room , often watching television . |
| 7 | Over the years they had often made love like this , in his back bedroom when the parents were in the house — Rachel seemed to enjoy the danger — although never on the floor before ! |
| 8 | So long as he was a Member of Parliament he could not be arrested for debt , but bailiffs were in the house when he was taken mortally ill . |
| 9 | The club account books were in the house and over £2,000 in cash . |
| 10 | The books which were in the house were of another kind and pursued a different and more old-fashioned simplification ; some of them were indeed Victorian in fact as well as in tone , relics of her grandmother 's childhood . |
| 11 | And when the men were in the house they were in bed . |
| 12 | They were in the house that Luke and Carla shared . |
| 13 | All meals were in the house . |
| 14 | I had a bottle of VP Rich Ruby wine , and Darren 's tablets were in the house , and I had some pain killers . |
| 15 | Then , there would be at least two presentations a day , perhaps more when guests were in the house . |
| 16 | Others were in the house . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that this is wonderful news for Glasgow and for Scotland and a great tribute to the work force and management , some of whom were in the House this week to meet an all-party group ? |
| 19 | and also the Home Guard or the army were in the house at the far side of the airport which was called Aldridge Lodge they were very much in there the erm |
| 20 | so it shows that er , you know , the globe is warming up , even in Russia where I went , my mother , where I , where I was staying at er Dunyask , there was five metre snow sometimes in the , it , it came and it just blocked your windows , it blocked your doors and you were inside the house and you could n't get out |
| 21 | When we were outside the house , where no one could hear us , she said : ‘ As nobody is out at this time I thought it would be nice to go to that field which is full of melons . |
| 22 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 23 | As H. M. Colvin has observed ‘ what Reims and St Denis were to the house of Capet , Westminster should be to the house of Plantagenet ’ . |
| 24 | All Friday , Saturday and Sunday we were at the house , and he was shooting cocaine all the time — shooting it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What did Miss Trunchbull call your father when they were around the house at home ? ’ |
| 26 | One basket was for the house ; a different basket held larger eggs , chosen to be set for hatching . |
| 27 | He stressed how unwise it was for the House to curtail Committee stages . |
| 28 | If I 'd known how important it was about the house — I did n't understand until I got your note . |
| 29 | Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House . |
| 30 | Contented as she was with the house , Virginia was always to cast a glance over her shoulder at her sister , living just five miles away at Charleston . |