Example sentences of "be in [art] house " in BNC.

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1 They 're in a house down the street .
2 I do n't know whether , whether it sort of erm rang any bells with you but normally if you 're in a house people do n't offer you dri they usually say would you like a cup of tea or a cup of coffee and I just wondered , perhaps it 's my suspicious nature , whether this guy 's got a drink problem
3 Yeah , like somebody else , like , you 're walking down the street , like , you 're in a house and , and you check it for a minute and you 're like
4 ‘ You make my wife feel much happier , knowing you 're in the house .
5 Just perfect for when you 're in the house on your own at night
6 ‘ Right , I 'll tell George and Jim , they 're in the house with me .
7 And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it .
8 When you 're in the house , it 's always Andrew this and Andrew that from Gran .
9 ‘ I realise you love this car and I know you 're tired , ’ she said , determinedly hauling him out , ‘ but I 'd be grateful if you could save this until we 're in the house and in the dry . ’
10 They 're in the house .
11 They 're in the house now .
12 It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke .
13 It was a secret they 'd been in the house .
14 Often the furniture looked lost after he had left a room and because of this Endill soon learnt to tell where his father had been in the house .
15 At no. 52 lived Mr. Maton with his elderly spinster sister , a very quiet couple whose family had been in the house for almost two centuries .
16 He began , ‘ You have been in the House fifteen years and it 's time you were promoted … and I now want you to go to the Board of Education .
17 I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years .
18 ‘ He had only been in the house four minutes at the most when he suddenly turned to me and said : ‘ Would you come to dinner with me tonight ? ’ .
19 Sheila and John think the burglar must have been in the house when they returned from a night out .
20 They have managed to do this without losing the original character of the building ; marble fireplaces , Victorian and Georgian chests , a collection of clocks and a grand piano which has been in the house since the turn of the century , all seem to be very much at home here .
21 Richard Nixon had been in the House and the Senate and vice-president for eight years , but ultimately he proved to be a disastrous president .
22 I have not been in the House of Lords very long , so on the heritage front , I have n't had the opportunity to do a great deal yet .
23 To be fair on the woman , he thought , had her daughter not been in the house then the mother … despite her rather theatrical tendency to clasp at her side …
24 All the time she had been in the house .
25 So , I had not been in the house an hour when he sent three of the Six to me .
26 He 'd been in the house once before .
27 Have you ever been in the house ? ’
28 He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise .
29 I mean , I do n't think Alfred had been in the house or the bookshop except for mother 's Wednesday teas since we moved from Trebyan nearly thirty years ago . ’
30 People have been in the house and they nipped in while they 've been
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