Example sentences of "house [prep] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with the island 's hydro-electric scheme — bringing power to some houses for the first time — and the harbour improvements , the incident will probably go down in Shetland annals as another stage in Foula 's modernisation . |
| 2 | Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused . |
| 3 | I shall have to leave this house for the first time in many weeks . |
| 4 | In December that year , Nez Perce traded at Kootenae House for the first time , and by 1810 they had obtained sufficient firearms to join the Flathead in a party of 150 that drove back the Blackfoot , whose hostility had plagued initial efforts of traders to penetrate westward . |
| 5 | Among this year 's participants are : Richard Philp ( also exhibiting at Grosvenor House for the first time this year ) whose stand will include a portrait by Cornelis Johnson and a group of antiquities ; book dealer Nicholas Merchant of Harrogate who will have books on all aspects of European decorative and fine arts ; Brian Beet of Bond Street who has a rare Spanish-colonial gold snuff box made in Peru in the mid-eighteenth century ; numismatists A.H . |
| 6 | Ever since that night when , with their father away inspecting a distant building site , they had been left alone in the house for the first time , and the ‘ broth ’ had decided to wreak mayhem . |
| 7 | For instance , many children when they draw a house for the first time will do their utmost to draw the four sides and the roof of the building all in one drawing , and they generally succeed in portraying three sides and the roof of the house , all laid out flat . |
| 8 | Late on the afternoon of her third day Delia Sutherland left the house for the first time . |
| 9 | When a bill has been negotiated in this way and drafted , it is then presented to the House for the first time . |
| 10 | Master Vechey was here when Brother Athelstan and I came to the house for the first time . |
| 11 | Young and old are enjoying the novelty of living in a ‘ proper ’ house for the first time in their lives . |
| 12 | The result was of particular significance because the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , which had lost its majority in the Upper House for the first time in the 1989 elections , devoted massive resources to the by-election campaign . |
| 13 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 14 | He ran round to the back of the house for the second time . |
| 15 | A 1000lb bomb explodes outside the Grand Opera House for the second time . |
| 16 | After several days of dividing their possessions into things they wished to keep and things which could be given away or sold , they were ready to leave the house for the last time . |
| 17 | Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady . |
| 18 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 19 | The Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill , which affects my constituency and is returning to the House for the third time , now has an EIS which has been published and is freely available to the hon. Members in the Vote Office . |