Example sentences of "to get [adv prt] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the lecture there were tea and refreshments and it was not until fairly late that I rang Emily just to say Hello , and how sorry I was to be too busy to get over to the house to see her this trip . |
| 2 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 3 | One evening , as an excuse to get out of the house , she went with a letter to the post office . |
| 4 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 5 | ‘ We have to get out of the house . |
| 6 | Françoise Cribier finds one reason for the remarkable exodus of retired couples from Paris is that both man and wife need the husband to get out of the house . |
| 7 | She constantly felt the need to get out of the house and go somewhere , anywhere … but always she would return to be punished , because there was nowhere . |
| 8 | A partner may hate feeling dependent , but still find it difficult to get out of the house and mix with strangers . |
| 9 | I kissed her and held her and tried to get out of the house without saying goodbye to anyone . |
| 10 | Anything to get out of the house … |
| 11 | There are five main precautions you can take to make your home safe and protect your family from danger : eliminate fire hazards ; fit smoke detectors ; keep basic firefighting equipment in danger areas ; learn what to do if fire breaks out , and make sure that every member of the family knows how to get out of the house . |
| 12 | While the point of the job is to make money , it is also to get out of the house and talk to other people . |
| 13 | I make these journeys just to get out of the house . |
| 14 | And it does me good to get out of the house . |
| 15 | Barak left the room , leaving the door ajar in his haste to get out of the house . |
| 16 | When she hinted to Dona Marguerita that she was sometimes bored and would like to get out of the house and see more of the country , the old lady was quick to point out how much had already been done for her . |
| 17 | Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd love to get out of the house for a bit , ’ said Julia , plumping for Florian 's . |
| 19 | Seeing how low she was , Anthony decided that she needed to get out of the house and gave her reluctant permission to spend half of each day in court . |
| 20 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 21 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 22 | ‘ Most women moan about the problems they have trying to get out of the house to pursue their careers . |
| 23 | ‘ By when do I have to get out of the house ? ’ |
| 24 | There were a lot of people in town all desperate , I think , to get out of the house after the long Christmas break . ’ |
| 25 | She suddenly knew she had to get out of the house . |
| 26 | My idea is to get out of the house . |
| 27 | She told herself not to do it , to turn away from him , to get out of the house . |
| 28 | The mother and her children , who have not been named , managed to get out of the house before the flames spread . |
| 29 | Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS . |
| 30 | This gave them a little more freedom , and his habit of falling asleep in the afternoons allowed them to get out of the house sometimes . |