Example sentences of "come [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 2 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 3 | Heathcliff had come into the house and stood at the bottom of the stairs , looking up . |
| 4 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 'll have to come into the house and sober up before he 's fit to take the cart home . |
| 6 | The next night , before going to bed , Gabriel called his two dogs to come into the house for the night . |
| 7 | We hope that it will never occur again , but if it does , may we have clear guidance so that those outside the House will know that if the police warn that it is unsafe to come into the House the Division either will or will not be extended ? |
| 8 | He held his hand out in a gesture for her to come into the house but in that second she knew she never could . |
| 9 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |
| 10 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 11 | The Bill must be one of the most sensitive to come before the House for many years . |
| 12 | He also does himself no good by laying a prayer that has to be among the most bogus , ill thought out and badly argued measures to come before the House for many a long year . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman has the opportunity of warning us all not to speak for too long , because another important measure , concerning the civil rights of disabled people , is to come before the House today . |
| 14 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 15 | Britain , the only other EC country not to have implemented all provisions of the directive , is doing so in the Criminal Justice bill that has just come before the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't like to come to the house , ’ he went on , giving her an odd sideways smile . |
| 18 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 19 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 20 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 21 | He often used to come to the house . ’ |
| 22 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 23 | ‘ Then why did you ask her to come to the house ? ’ |
| 24 | But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang . |
| 25 | He has had to come to the House with the Bill because he was unable to deliver . |
| 26 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 27 | The next Labour Government will do it ; we will have the guts to come to the House with a solution that we think will be in the interests of the consumers , those who want to retain the special nature of Sunday , those who work in the industry and all the other interested groups . |
| 28 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 29 | I hope that it will be possible — though I shall understand if it is not — for a Minister to come to the House to say something about that major incident , which involved the jetty at Grangemouth , which is part of the dock and BP complex . |
| 30 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |