Example sentences of "our house " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she would like to burn our houses down . |
| 2 | We even grew grapes on the side of our houses . |
| 3 | A Stoke pottery manager 's parents retired to the south-west , but returned when they could no longer live independently , moving ‘ to each of our houses in turn . |
| 4 | We are losing cells continually from our skin ; much of the dust in our houses consists of our sloughed-off cells . |
| 5 | We are constantly reminded of the appalling condition of our houses . |
| 6 | Dead skin cells are continuously falling off and contribute to the dust in our houses . |
| 7 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 8 | We now see the cat 's actions as part of its natural specialization as a predatory carnivore , and we recognize that in ridding our houses of mice it is neither ‘ malicious ’ and ‘ vicious ’ on the one hand , nor ‘ loyal ’ and ‘ responsible ’ on the other . |
| 9 | Lighting our houses , workplaces and public buildings may account for over 10GW of power at peak time — this could be cut by 75 per cent if new fluorescent lamps were used instead of the incandescent light bulb . |
| 10 | Almost all of us refused and they tore our houses apart and seized the guns . |
| 11 | We all know this because our cars , television sets , washing machines and refrigerators tend to stop functioning and require servicing and repair , and our houses , if we neglect them , fall into a state of disrepair . |
| 12 | The store burned because , some minutes after 11am on 25 April , a 6.9 earthquake heaved the town , our houses and the store briefly off the ground and , in the store , an electric coffee pot overturned . |
| 13 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 14 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 15 | Wonderful wires stretch into our houses . |
| 16 | Mrs Abercrombie has been incontinent for the last year and is unsuitable , now , for one of our houses . |
| 17 | ‘ He digs up our houses , he destroys our nests , and chases our children ! |
| 18 | Our houses and flats range from £150 to £2,500 per week , tenants mainly multi-national companies and banks . |
| 19 | We could n't get out of our houses for two days . ’ |
| 20 | We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside . |
| 21 | It will work our mills , and light our houses and streets , and run our cars . |
| 22 | ‘ When we reached our houses , Lily kissed my cheek and ran in . |
| 23 | If we plan a burglary between us at least it makes us think about the , the sort of things that we need to look at our houses , to stop that burglary from |
| 24 | And Mrs Thrigg does a number of our houses . |
| 25 | Our procedure was to invite friends and acquaintances around to our houses , specifically to record them . |
| 26 | Spring bursts in our houses . |
| 27 | ‘ They are watching our houses . |
| 28 | Well I 'm sick of it cos you see every year we get little kids coming round to our houses asking for trick or treat |
| 29 | If you read any report that comes out from the government , any report that comes out from Shelter you will find that in fact private sector housing , your house , my house , our houses are subsidised twice as much by this government than so called public . |
| 30 | The , another point is that that having raised the hopes of the housing associations the council is now actually trying to close a door that that we ourselves opened and this is tantamount to paying lip service to the health and the housing associations , yes , we 'll support you but not if it means that we have to sell you our houses . |