Example sentences of "come to [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't like to come to the house , ’ he went on , giving her an odd sideways smile . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He often used to come to the house . ’ |
| 7 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 8 | ‘ Then why did you ask her to come to the house ? ’ |
| 9 | But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang . |
| 10 | He has had to come to the House with the Bill because he was unable to deliver . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Seldom a telegram came and nobody liked to see one come to a house . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 18 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |
| 19 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 20 | I am a recipient of Public Lending Right and I have come to the House tonight to say thank you to honourable members who were here in 1979 , when the legislation was passed . ’ |
| 21 | The girl herself was free , and had come to the house through the offices of a steward . |
| 22 | One might point out that this morning he issued to the press a 20-page document which he still has not come to the House to answer for . |
| 23 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 24 | Since they had come to the house she had grown progressively calmer , more relaxed . |
| 25 | I am sorry that I so rattled the Prime Minister with my question at the previous Prime Minister 's Question Time that he has not come to the House today . |
| 26 | We understand why he had come to the House today to denounce freeloading for the rich . |
| 27 | I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident . |
| 28 | The Minister said earlier today that he hoped it would be accepted that the Government had come to the House in good faith . |
| 29 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 30 | According to Boswell , ‘ Between twelve and one we set out , and travelled eleven miles , through a wild country , till we came to a house in Glenmorison [ the modern spelling adds a ‘ t ’ — Glenmoriston : Johnson calls it Glenmollison ] called Anoch , kept by a McQueen . ’ |