Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the house " in BNC.

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1 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
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 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 .
4 ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty .
5 had come out of the house .
6 She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house .
7 There were newspaper reporters standing in the lane where he had lived , waiting all day for someone to come out of the house .
8 Then I found her outside the kitchen door , crying , she 'd lost her shoes what with one thing and another and she was too ashamed to come back into the house .
9 You do n't want to come back into the house after somebody has been there .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows .
13 He used to come round to the house , a few years ago , before he took up so much with the Labour Party . "
14 ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did .
15 He came up to the house that evening , armed with the music box and the monkey .
16 Put the boat into the boat-house and made the doors fast , then came up to the house .
17 ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations .
18 ‘ The first time she went out in it she came back into the house giggling that she 'd driven through town with the top down , even though it was freezing .
19 I came back into the house soon afterwards , but Emily walked for an hour or two in the rain with her dog , Keeper .
20 When she came back into the house , her dress was wet through .
21 But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew .
22 When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink .
23 Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ .
24 About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house .
25 Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee .
26 When she came back to the house in the evening , Martha told her that the servants had had trouble with Colin .
27 Later on that night Clare also came back to the house .
28 Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’
29 ‘ Rosa and … and Dolores came back to the house .
30 He came back to the house crying his eyes out . ’
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