Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1983 I announced in the House of Commons that health authorities should put their ancillary services out to tender to see whether they would get best value from private or in-house organizations . |
| 2 | I announced in the House on 26 November my plans for recurrent and capital expenditure on grant-aided colleges . |
| 3 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 4 | As I stated in the house during the debate on the seventh of er July , the plant commission established by the Labour party to look into electoral systems proposed as one of its many recommendations , a system of proportional representation , the regional list system for the European parliament . |
| 5 | The woman with whom we boarded took pity on me and I worked in the house with her . |
| 6 | I worked in the house and the garden , and every day I planned to escape , but it was never possible . |
| 7 | I thought , something 's up with my mum , and I went in the house . |
| 8 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
| 9 | ‘ I said in the House we all had an affection for Mrs Thatcher but , but , but , and Edna never forgave me . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't think I had any celery , I had , I had put in whatever I had in the house and sort of various herbs and spices and things . |
| 11 | She lived in the house . |
| 12 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 13 | So anyway she er she got in the house and she never went out again |
| 14 | I had never known that world and I wondered how Olga felt , consigning me to it while she luxuriated in the house . |
| 15 | Kit looked at the statue of the Infant of Prague that she kept in the house to impress the mothers of the students who boarded with her . |
| 16 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 17 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 18 | She went downstairs and brought up the only sweets she had in the house ; a box of liqueur chocolates . |
| 19 | And we went in the house three-bedroomed semi-detached house . |
| 20 | He recalled the ‘ ferocious debates that we had in the House back in the 1970s when , if I recall correctly , the Public Lending Right Bill was almost the only government bill that was defeated by Opposition backbenchers . |
| 21 | So they lived in the house |
| 22 | As the moment approached for a key procedural vote that would make or break Reagan 's programme , Stockman received an agitated telephone call from Bill Thomas , a conservative Republican from California and an agent of the administration on Capitol Hill : This extended quotation provides a fascinating picture of the American pluralist system in operation while helping us to understand why the Reaganites were successful in fashioning the coalitions they required in the House of Representatives . |
| 23 | All they had in the house was six eggs for scrambling and the remains of Ethel 's heart . |
| 24 | In the speech which he made in the House of Lords debate on the bill , Lord Brougham pointed out that one half of the cases where ‘ serviceable process ’ had been used were settled before even an appearance was entered . |
| 25 | I do n't know how he got in the house but suddenly he was knocking on your door . |
| 26 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 27 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 28 | Mum opened it and it flew in the house . |
| 29 | Wherever he went in the house , he carried reams of calculations and sometimes would get up in the middle of a meal because he suspected that his calculator was at fault . |
| 30 | So me mam says so he went in the house and says his , his wife 's name , he said , give me a pencil and paper . |