Example sentences of "come back [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You do n't want to come back into the house after somebody has been there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I came back into the house soon afterwards , but Emily walked for an hour or two in the rain with her dog , Keeper . |
| 8 | When she came back into the house , her dress was wet through . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When she came back to the house in the evening , Martha told her that the servants had had trouble with Colin . |
| 15 | Later on that night Clare also came back to the house . |
| 16 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Rosa and … and Dolores came back to the house . |
| 18 | He came back to the house crying his eyes out . ’ |
| 19 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 20 | Van Cheele 's old dog , when he saw the boy , had run away in fear and would not come back into the house . |
| 21 | I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop . |
| 22 | The note read ‘ I knew you would come back into the house , so please take some food . |
| 23 | Marie can come back to the house and bring her baby and we can carry on like before with me sleeping on the floor and that . |
| 24 | ‘ You must come back to the house — calamine lotion is the thing , I believe . |
| 25 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're not doing anything , would you come back to the house with us now ? |
| 27 | bother I 've ever had with him , and he goes on to it and away he goes and he 'll come back in the house and he 'll go up the stairs to the computer , and that 's his life . |
| 28 | The first thing Sandy said when we met up again was , ‘ Come back to the house . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Come back to the house with me . |
| 30 | And if she comes back to the house , she wo n't be able to find me , so I got to stay there . |