Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 2 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 3 | he tried to get into the house Rhys were |
| 4 | The next day Neville Chamberlain called and rehearsed with him the defence which Hoare proposed to make to the House of Commons on Thursday , the 19th . |
| 5 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 6 | When prospective buyers came to look at the house , which happened more and more frequently , they stayed out of the way until they had gone . |
| 7 | I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’ |
| 8 | A Sri Lankan girl , Prema , came to help in the house for a while . |
| 9 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 10 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 11 | His brother , Tommy , came to live in the house but he did n't survive very long either . |
| 12 | A young woman called Justine came to live in the house to help my mother with the children . |
| 13 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 14 | When they were in the woods Tess turned to look at the house . |
| 15 | Elaine turned to walk into the house . |
| 16 | Even as Greg turned to run towards the house , he seemed to register that Viola 's concern for Hilda was less genuine than her concern for Pimpernel . |
| 17 | He held the office until his death although he ceased to officiate in the House of Lords at the dissolution of Parliament in March 1629 . |
| 18 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | Shortly thereafter cracks began to appear in the house both internally and externally and the purchaser had to have the house underpinned at a cost of £1,444 and had obtained estimates of between £1,500 and 12,000 for repairs to the superstructure . |
| 20 | But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang . |
| 21 | James I believed that ‘ Kings were breathing images of God upon earth ’ and he insisted on lecturing Parliament , so the relationship between King and Parliament steadily deteriorated and much of the political initiative began to pass from the House of Lords to the House of Commons . |
| 22 | He lifted her bag out but , instead of handing it to her , he kept a firm grip on it and began to walk towards the house . |
| 23 | Stepping out of the car , she smoothed down the skirt of her flame-coloured dress , and began to walk towards the house . |
| 24 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
| 25 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 26 | Instead she decided to wander round the house , looking into some of the hundred rooms that Mrs Medlock had told her about . |
| 27 | We decided to stay in the house and have an early lunch with some of Lady Furness ’ friends . |
| 28 | I decided to break into the house in whose porch I was sheltering , and search for food and clothes . |
| 29 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 30 | So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now . |