Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] of the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was noted that Stefan did not play with his toys for more than a few seconds before leaving them , so she was advised to reward him for playing longer ( so that he would have less time for wandering out of the house ) . |
| 2 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 3 | On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed . |
| 4 | And it was an old woman — she was a religious maniac and she was rushing out of the house in her nightie and praying in the gutter . |
| 5 | I think of myself rushing out of the house in North Oxford , or the quiet residential streets beyond the University Library in Cambridge , snatching my ancient portable typewriter off my desk as I go , with the voices of boorish boys shouting ‘ Mum ! |
| 6 | People began piling out of the house : two daughters-in-law , several small children , some unmarried daughters , two old grandfathers and the new bridegroom . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've done what I came for , ’ she declared , marching out of the house . |
| 8 | That is em if nothing happens , if the survivor , if the person being abused does n't do anything , then the abuse carries on and the abuser y'know continues to regularly perform this these acts of abuse , whatever they might be , and erm stopping it is something that er usually involves the , in inverted commas , victim , taking control of the situ well no no well not exactly taking control but trying to do something about it er making more fuss about it to other people , moving out of the house , as sometimes happens when people are adolescents . |
| 9 | Once the patient is used to getting out of the house , he can go out for social occasions . |
| 10 | Largely for this reason , answers to the question ‘ Do you like shopping ? ’ are predominantly favourable ; many women mention ‘ getting out of the house ’ or ‘ meeting people ’ as advantages of shopping . |
| 11 | It makes a change from housework getting out of the house — and it 's a bit of a challenge too , budgeting and trying to get the cheapest of everything . |
| 12 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 13 | Really , it was because she looked forward to getting out of the house by herself ! |
| 14 | As a result he early on developed the habit of staying out of the house as much as possible . |
| 15 | Eventually he asked her out , and , even though she knew her parents strongly disapproved of the flashy young man from London , she disobeyed them and started sneaking out of the house every night when they were asleep , to meet him . |
| 16 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 17 | Edward recalls his earliest years at Wakehurst Road : I have only one clear early glimpse of my father — darting out of the house in his slippers and chasing and catching a big boy who had bullied me . |
| 18 | A woman is coming out of the house . |
| 19 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 20 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 21 | He was last seen staggering out of the house into the street possiblity still being pursued by his assailants . |
| 22 | It was quite funny yesterday , because , he , when I went out in the garden there was a football nestling in the rose bushes , I heaved it back over the fence , thirty seconds later the two boys came roaring out of the house , and about thirty seconds after that |
| 23 | The water went sluicing out of the house into the garden . |
| 24 | A little boy wearing a balaclava cap too large for him came trotting out of the house . |
| 25 | Blonde Michelle says : ‘ My boyfriend Fisher Stevens will have to drag me kicking and screaming out of the house , but once I get on holiday I 'm sure I 'll enjoy it . |
| 26 | " You mean the bears bursting out of the house , shouting out of the windows , chasing the little girl away ? |