Example sentences of "the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Africans have not moved into the houses of the Portuguese . |
| 2 | One day a young journeyman white-washing the inside of the houses ran his brush over the toad 's back . |
| 3 | The ritual of the whitewashing ( or limewashing , as Harry calls it ) the houses was in itself a method of pest control . |
| 4 | Limewashing began in October and all the houses had to be finished by the end of February , as many would then have the heat turned up to set their inmates into growth . |
| 5 | Little clusters of guests were standing about on the cobblestones between the houses , looking at a loss . |
| 6 | The houses were huts — branches and small tree-trunks caulked with turf . |
| 7 | ‘ The redcoats will go through the houses like a fire ! |
| 8 | Remember ‘ Forty-six — ‘ Not in the houses . |
| 9 | He had started out to make a rough count of the houses to be visited and then let his thoughts drift into a reverie of his own old home , the far tropical look of the mountain skyline beyond Loch Arkaig on the rare hot days . |
| 10 | Miracles from the houses and church spires |
| 11 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 12 | It was first noted in Ballet Imperial ( 1941 ) when every time a scale-like passage in the second movement of Tchaikovsky 's Piano Concerto No. 2 is played , the three soloists link hands to make two arches through which the corps de ballet ‘ ran round the houses ’ ( Edwin Evans ) . |
| 13 | More than 300 owners of ‘ dangerous ’ dogs rallied outside the Houses of Parliament earlier this summer . |
| 14 | ‘ How , ’ he asked , ‘ do we provide the houses we need without destroying the places we love ? ’ |
| 15 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
| 16 | The snag is , as London Docklands developers have found , these are not always the houses that people want . |
| 17 | An exhibition that brings together ( for the first time in over a century ) the Pre-Raphaelites ' paintings , sculpture and decorative arts that decorated the houses of the region 's Victorian industrialists and entrepreneurs . |
| 18 | As the rich , after 10 years of Conservative government , have become proportionately wealthier , the houses they want to buy have become more sought after . |
| 19 | German flares were lighting up the sky behind me as I hurried along the road , keeping close to the houses and in their shadows as much as possible . |
| 20 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 21 | Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving . |
| 22 | There is a point in moving him to London because that is near the Houses of Parliament where he has weight . |
| 23 | Ninety per cent of the houses built in the inter-war period were of low rateable value , not exceeding £26 ( £35 in Greater London ) . |
| 24 | Even when allowance is made for a certain diversion of effort from new house-building to repair , and for the possibility that the average size of the houses built in 1947–9 is slightly above that of those built in 1934–8 , the contrast remains startling . |
| 25 | With an average of nine months ' notice , the timber trade — buying on its own responsibility — could procure , at a lower average price per standard than is being paid at present , enough timber for all the houses that the building industry can build . |
| 26 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 27 | The magical world of Darby O'Gill was shattered long ago when television came into the houses of Carrickfergus . |
| 28 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 29 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
| 30 | The first thing I did when I got behind the houses was to get out of Nibs 's clothes . ’ |