Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalchu was reflecting , wondering which of the shots we 'd heard from the house . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I came down on impulse , but as soon as I got here I wished I 'd stayed in the house . |
| 3 | He 'd returned to the house where he lived with his parents for lunch , last Wednesday . |
| 4 | A year passed while they grew used to the house , learned how the light fell and how the various rooms worked . |
| 5 | A Catholic family who had squatted in the house was evicted to make room for her , and a number of other Catholic families in the area were also denied houses . |
| 6 | It had been given to her in case an emergency arose , but it seemed to Mrs Blakey that the atmosphere which had developed in the house could n't be called an emergency . |
| 7 | The reassuring love she had expected from the house she found in a different measure from the three little dogs , friendly , even worshipful , and proffering no accusations of her neglectful absence — their care and pleasures important to her , she leaned against the car and waited while they took to the woods and the wild . |
| 8 | 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 . ] . |
| 9 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |
| 10 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 11 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |
| 12 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 13 | The girl herself was free , and had come to the house through the offices of a steward . |
| 14 | Since they had come to the house she had grown progressively calmer , more relaxed . |
| 15 | We understand why he had come to the House today to denounce freeloading for the rich . |
| 16 | The Minister said earlier today that he hoped it would be accepted that the Government had come to the House in good faith . |
| 17 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 18 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 19 | Heathcliff had come into the house and stood at the bottom of the stairs , looking up . |
| 20 | I later found out that the school had enquired at the house after the girl 's continued absence and been given some plausible excuse for it by the father . |
| 21 | A tall thin guy I had seen in the house before crawled on all fours in front of the television to get at Nicola 's joint . |
| 22 | Well , then , she would buy some new gowns — just one or two , perhaps — that she might , as Rose said , fit better with the work she had done on the house . |
| 23 | He took her arm as he had done at the house , his hand under her elbow , her weight against him , and she was powerless to alter the facts . |
| 24 | 522 , the plaintiff sued the defendant , a Member of Parliament , for an alleged libel on television and sought to introduce evidence of what the defendant had said in the House of Commons as proof of malice . |
| 25 | As soon as John Thorold of Marston had moved into the house he died , leaving no children . |
| 26 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 27 | Is it not a fact that everyone in the Home Office associated with this case has been properly advised by qualified lawyers , that the facts that my right hon. Friend had produced to the House today are not in dispute and that the issue is one of constitutional importance only ? |
| 28 | A fire service spokesman said : ‘ If we had got to the house sooner it is possible this young man may still be alive . |
| 29 | The Bentleys were the tenth set of prospective purchasers whom he had shown round the house . |
| 30 | They followed Miss Williams 's directions to the Morgan family , and knocked on the door , being let in promptly by the stocky WPC who had stayed in the house with the women of the Morgan family . |