Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the house [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had n't she arranged for the house to be sold so that Fabien de Rochefort could at least be repaid to some extent ? |
| 2 | He was a mysterious man who wandered about the house at all hours but was very rarely seen . |
| 3 | The case would be pursued through the House of Lords , ‘ but we recognise that our best hope is in the European Court of Human Rights . ’ |
| 4 | The two-year-old wandered out the house at dawn dressed in mum Michelle 's high heels and nightie . |
| 5 | She raced from the barn and fled towards the house with a very red face , especially as she heard his amused and taunting laughter . |
| 6 | Edouard moved into the house at St-Cloud alone . |
| 7 | And you moved into the house in nineteen fifty |
| 8 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
| 9 | While he was out , Buxton was let into the house by Hendley and lay in wait at the top of the stairs . |
| 10 | The next night , before going to bed , Gabriel called his two dogs to come into the house for the night . |
| 11 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 12 | Then , under pressure , Macmillan offered to brief the leader of the opposition , Hugh Gaitskell , and a group of Privy Councillors on a confidential basis , provided nothing was disclosed in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | Women , argued Mrs Anne Smith of West Bridgford , Nottingham , can do six jobs in five minutes of walking in the house with their coats still on . |
| 14 | Attacked in the House for his failure to take part in the business of sequestration , Holland obtained permission to join his family in the Netherlands . |
| 15 | I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice . |
| 16 | The Conference decided " that the leaders of the next Labour Government and the Parliamentary Labour Party be instructed by the National Conference that , on assuming office , either with or without power , definite Socialist legislation must be immediately promulgated , and the Party shall stand or fall in the House of Commons on the principles in which it has faith " . |
| 17 | And it suggests the centre of the struggle lies in the House of Laity where the women 's cause risks defeat . |
| 18 | The Bill must be one of the most sensitive to come before the House for many years . |
| 19 | He also does himself no good by laying a prayer that has to be among the most bogus , ill thought out and badly argued measures to come before the House for many a long year . |
| 20 | … John and I , flattered at first by the sweet smell of success , had to get out of it , into another language , forgotten in the House of Fame but happy ever after in the House of Fiction . |
| 21 | In resigning the South Bronx district seat which he had held since 1978 , Garcia followed the example of fellow Democrat Mario Biaggi who had resigned from the House of Representatives in August 1988 after being convicted in connection with the Wedtech affair [ ibid . ] . |
| 22 | On the same day as the announcement of Dole 's departure , an Ohio Republican , Donald E. " Buzz " Lukens , resigned from the House of Representatives with immediate effect . |
| 23 | Charles Rose , the chairman of a House of Representatives agriculture subcommittee , claimed in the House on March 14 that BNL had loaned part of the money to Rafidain under the pretence that it formed part of a $514,000,000 government-approved export credit guarantee scheme for agricultural development in Iraq . |
| 24 | However , Dr Robert Runcie , the then Archbishop of Canterbury , claimed in the House of Lords ( 2 February , 1987 ) that ‘ there is no automatic trickling down process that ensures that increased wealth will benefit the poor . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Louise had been like Alice once , and now she wandered round the house like a wraith , her mind never at rest . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And it tends to be I 'm sad to have to say it , it tends to be a limited number of colleagues who are totally I think , removed from the mainstream of what the majority off us want to see , who are to prepared to withhold their voted in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | They were seen off after walking round the house to the front . |
| 30 | Britain , the only other EC country not to have implemented all provisions of the directive , is doing so in the Criminal Justice bill that has just come before the House of Commons . |