Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] to the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 2 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 3 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 4 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 5 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 6 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
| 7 | ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows . |
| 8 | He used to come round to the house , a few years ago , before he took up so much with the Labour Party . " |
| 9 | Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ? |
| 10 | She turned round , ready to scuttle back to the house , and immediately cannoned into a hard , warm body . |
| 11 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 12 | Tess stepped out of the tomb and managed to persuade Angel to walk back to the house , without waking him . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact , if I do or say anything that you really object to , you 'll be able to walk back to the house . ’ |
| 14 | Hoping to escape back to the house , I crept quietly behind him while he was bending over to admire an insect , but — |
| 15 | I 'd like to go up to the house . |
| 16 | I should like to point out to the House just how ignorant we are about many of the matters on which we legislate . |
| 17 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 18 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 19 | I do n't want to go back to the house yet , a bit , not yet . " |
| 20 | All her concern seemed to be for Terry 's family , especially his mother , and Anne was even more surprised when Sarah refused to go back to the house with her . |
| 21 | ‘ I want you to go back to the house and telephone the Incident Room . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you need to go back to the house to change ? ’ |
| 24 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 25 | At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’ |
| 26 | The fifty one year old tried to crawl back to the house but collapsed . |
| 27 | He could afford to hang on to the house until the market quickened . |
| 28 | She was elected Labour MP for Sunderland in 1929 , but , like many other women parliamentarians of the period , found it hard to break in to the House of Commons debates . |
| 29 | After the lecture there were tea and refreshments and it was not until fairly late that I rang Emily just to say Hello , and how sorry I was to be too busy to get over to the house to see her this trip . |
| 30 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |