Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] house " in BNC.
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1 | Some of the older building was retained at the back and several of the better quality timbers were re-used in the new house . |
2 | There is an induction loop installed in the Main House ; this enables patrons with a hearing aid to " tune in " to the switch marked " T " to take advantage of this facility . |
3 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
4 | Peter Cook , Jonathan Miller , Alan Bennett , and Dudley Moore came from public and grammar schools , juvenile mandarins of the meritocracy , they provided a show lodged in the half-way house between the angries of 1956 and the arts labs and tepees of the later 1960s , and , unlike much of what was to follow , it was very English . |
5 | Well , I ca n't let you listen to what 's being said in the entire house without having access to the entire house . |
6 | Her soft hands were so unaccustomed to such hard work that it became — temporarily , Miss Mates said , until they hardened — difficult for her to help with the fine sewing , and the darning and repairing needed in the little house . |
7 | She and her husband moved to Essex after the first of the three children was born , and have stayed in the same house since , Mary busying herself with a multitude of activities locally , and now caring for her husband since his stroke . |
8 | If a chimpanzee and a canary are raised in the same house as a child , neither of these two companions ever learns to talk like a human . |
9 | One of Gloucestershire 's most famous sons , Sir Mathew Hale , was born in the original house in 1609 — the much esteemed Lord Chief Justice of Charles II . |
10 | ASMALL exchange overheard in the bang-up-to-the-minute House of Commons . |
11 | To the extent that spiritual and temporal functions were united in the same house , by the same blood , the union would be doubly consecrated , doubly sanctified , and the unity of the nation all the more hallowed . |
12 | He only knew of the life he had led in the baby-farming house , one of seventeen young children . |
13 | It was felt that married servants — especially if both servants worked in the same house — tended to be more stable , and have a stabilising effect on the younger , unattached members of staff . " |
14 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
15 | All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House . |
16 | Dorothy , left in the bigger house , alone for a time and then , later , with Alice and Jasper , seemed to have fewer friends . |
17 | The main loser in the election was Rengo-no-Kai , a loose political movement backed by Japan 's largest labour organization , which , shortly after its formation in 1989 , had won 11 of the 12 seats which it had contested in the upper house elections . |
18 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
19 | After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move . |
20 | But I 've lived in the same house with my daughter-in-law for four years . |
21 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
22 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
23 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
24 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
25 | Do n't believe everything he says , mind , but he claims to have lived in the same house all his life . |
26 | If the order is unopposed it is deemed on introduction into the First House to have passed the committee stage and so the procedure is quite short ; it is repeated in the Second House . |
27 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral House of Representatives , comprising 105 members , elected for a five-year term , 10 elected paramount chiefs and 10 presidential nominees . |
28 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral House of Representatives , whose 97 members are elected for a three-year term . |
29 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral House of Representatives , which has 105 elected members , 10 elected paramount chiefs and 10 presidential nominees . |
30 | Legislative power is vested in the unicameral House of Representatives , which has 80 seats , 24 of which are nominally reserved for Turkish Cypriots but are not filled . |