Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the speech which he made in the House of Lords debate on the bill , Lord Brougham pointed out that one half of the cases where ‘ serviceable process ’ had been used were settled before even an appearance was entered . |
| 2 | He had some notable furniture and possessions , most of which he sold with the house when he moved into The Milebrook . |
| 3 | By the time he got to the house he knew each phrase by heart . |
| 4 | I do n't know how he got in the house but suddenly he was knocking on your door . |
| 5 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 6 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 7 | When he came into the house she was reading a book she had brought with her and she did n't even look up . |
| 8 | I always used to like him , she remembered ; I was glad when he came to the house . |
| 9 | ‘ I know , ’ she agreed , ‘ but he came with the house . |
| 10 | He drove past the house of his mother , who , he knew , was holding a party that night for her new lover , a celebrated patron of the arts . |
| 11 | He turned towards the house and stared at it with brooding eyes . |
| 12 | For an instant envying his friend 's unmarried state , he turned into the house to pacify whatever agitated waters the doctor had left in his wake . |
| 13 | With a jerking movement he turned to the house and pushed his way inside . |
| 14 | Another was shot as he fired into the house , and now lay wounded with his smoking pistol in his hand . |
| 15 | Irene Jaffray said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that Eddie Browning made the request to her when he arrived at the house she shared with Kerry Evans in Inverurie , Aberdeenshire . |
| 16 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 17 | When school was over , Mr Trilby decided to investigate further , so he walked to the house where Miss Trunchbull lived on the edge of the village , the lovely small red-brick Georgian building known as The Red House , tucked away in the woods behind the hills . |
| 18 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 19 | The next day , he returned to the house with Louise . |
| 20 | He returned to the house in St-Cloud late one night in 1954 , hollow with exhaustion . |
| 21 | Connon took a last look back at the gathering gloom before he stepped into the house . |
| 22 | He rushed into the house and put the receiver back . |
| 23 | He glanced at the house . |
| 24 | Yes , he worked at the House , and so did my mother . |
| 25 | So the the manager our greatest enemy , we used to know when he started from the house in the morning actually by quarry that er he was coming , but the on this particular day anyway , somebody had slipped up somewhere . |
| 26 | He called at the house but the doctor always refused to see him . |
| 27 | Police now reveal he called at the house shortly after that . |
| 28 | He thought about the house in Tuscany , the perfect life . |
| 29 | Once he went to the house in Stone Alley and was met at the door by Maggie Byrne , but she only wanted to talk about the undersized child in her arms whose life he had saved . |
| 30 | The phone was ringing as he went into the house . |