Example sentences of "the house [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the dream all three of them were in the garden of the house outside Oxford . |
2 | Is it the magistrate who issues the search warrant , er , and the police go in and search the house for drugs or anything . |
3 | The provisions were accepted and the Bill has returned to the House for consideration . |
4 | To attain the life after death the individual required a tomb , " the house for eternity " , the preservations of his body or some suitable substitute as his unique identity and material needs of food , drink and so on to ensure continued existence . |
5 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
6 | In London or Dublin the girls would look back to the house for healing . |
7 | But when his dad ran out of the house for help , he found qualified lifeguard Paul James rescuing Dribble from the top of a telegraph pole . |
8 | He has a tutor , a retired teacher who visits the house for mathematics and is following a traditional and largely irrelevant course in it ( such as he might be following at school ) and he is learning quite sufficient about mathematics in context apart from that ( shades of Cockcroft ! ) |
9 | Later , I went back into the house for breakfast . |
10 | They ran back to the house for breakfast , George excited at their success , Libby content with the same feeling she had had when she first persuaded the old pony to come up to her and accept sugar from her outstretched palm . |
11 | On washing day I fill a bucket half full of very hot water and add my cup of soap powder before going back to the house for breakfast . |
12 | So what did she mean , the proprietress of the lugubrious little estaminet on the banks of the lovely Loire , what could she have meant when she said she had nothing in the house for lunch ? |
13 | I went back to the house for lunch and found my father chopping driftwood in the back garden . |
14 | Quigley coughed. , e need' , he said , rather stiffly , ‘ to use the house for prayer . ’ |
15 | In addition to Teannaki , the other candidates for the presidential elections , scheduled for July 3 , were representatives Beniamina Tinga of Nikunau and Boanareke Boanareke , of Tamana , both of whom were supporters of Tabai , and Roniti Teiwaki , an independent member of the House for South Tarawa . |
16 | Harley O. Staggers , a Democratic member of the House for West Virginia , initiating a bill proposing a point-of-sale background check which , whilst on the face of it more stringent than the Brady bill , was full of loopholes and would have taken years to implement . |
17 | Vicky searched the house for Seth , to break the news that she was leaving . |
18 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
19 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
20 | They have devious ways of making money from bereaved people 's misery , whether by knocking on the door after a death , offering to clear the house for cash , including any objects of value ; or by offering solace in exchange for cash or fees . |
21 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
22 | One of the conditions of the original purchase from Wedgwood was that it could buy back the house for £1 if we had not completed the restoration within five years . |
23 | It is just as much an abuse of the process of the House for opposition to seek to talk out or filibuster , as it is for government to stifle opposition . |
24 | Millers has the house for sale at £295,000 . |
25 | Given the widespread support on both sides of the house for Sir Thomas ' recommendations , the government believes that we should now act promptly to pass these changes into law . |
26 | She was deft and quiet , with the rare gift of speaking only when something needed to be said , but her friendliness warmed the house for Winnie , and the knowledge that Jenny would do anything , at any time , to help her , was wonderfully comforting . |
27 | It even staged the most expensive gimmick of all , building the House for Lovers in a park in the city , a Mackintosh design never realised in his own lifetime . |
28 | British Coal had decided to sell the house for conversion into a hotel to Roo Management , a company run by an Australian businessman who had also bought Holme Lacey in Herefordshire with the intention of making it a hotel . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Votes for anti-discrimination and throws Lucy out of the house for fear of moral contamination . |