Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at the house " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 When they were in the woods Tess turned to look at the house .
6 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 .
7 The gunmen continued to fire at the house after he managed to scramble inside and slam the front door shut .
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