Example sentences of "[art] whole house " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |
| 2 | They were in neither half of the house , but in a space that did not really exist for Maggie , who never asked herself which half the house was whose , since the whole house was , for her , theirs . |
| 3 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 4 | When it was done the whole house had acquired a new pleasantness and comfort . |
| 5 | The whole house sat down after the Rosary one evening to pick the hospital she would go to . |
| 6 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 7 | The whole house would be consumed by the fever of haytime , the fear of broken weather until every wisp was won . |
| 8 | As soon as the dew had been burned off the grass , the whole house was in the hayfield , shaking out the heavy tangled lumps of grass the tedder had missed with the fork , raking what was light in from the edges . |
| 9 | They nearly beat me , ’ he said to the whole house , much pleased with what he had said . |
| 10 | After Luke and then Maggie had left for London there were still enough people to dull the heartache and emptiness but now that all the girls had gone it was as if the whole house had been cleaned . |
| 11 | Inside , the whole house slopes to the right , the stairs are unwashed , the walls are peeling , the door of a broken WC stands open . |
| 12 | Came home from a week 's camp with local youngsters to find that the whole house had been ransacked , windows smashed , kids toys broken , the water boiler ripped out and everything wet . |
| 13 | ‘ Even if the whole house collapsed on top of you . |
| 14 | In the same memorandum of April 1986 that eventually brought down the whole house of cards — the memorandum that mentioned the diversion of funds to the contras — an extraordinary phrase appeared : ‘ The Iranians have been told that our presence in Iran is ‘ a holy commitment ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Probably the whole house had been cosy and well-run when these ladies had been in their prime . |
| 16 | ALTHOUGH traditionally the Speaker is a figure who presides impartially over the Commons , his election by the whole House is usually influenced by strong party political currents . |
| 17 | The Speakership is for the whole House of Commons , and should not be an extension of government patronage . |
| 18 | The whole house vibrates like a sounding-box . |
| 19 | This lends the whole house a satisfying blush softened by the addition of authentic nineteenth-century lime and horsehair to the mix . |
| 20 | See also COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE ; POCKET-BREACHES ; PRIVATE BILL ; WEDNESDAY NIGHTS . |
| 21 | The Bill was then printed with the Committee 's revisions , and considered by a Committee of the whole House on 13th July , who sent it for a Third Reading . |
| 22 | Then in the evening there was an informal party in the house , and again the whole house felt alive with joy . |
| 23 | ‘ The whole house is quiet , it 's different . |
| 24 | We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out . |
| 25 | The shrine and the whole house shook and the ground beneath it seemed to be shifting away as though in an earthquake . |
| 26 | Today they were going to replaster the whole house : floors , ceilings , walls — inside and out . |
| 27 | Lord Rawdon told the Committee of the whole House of Lords , which read his bill clause by clause in May , that he thought a debtor should be able to swear to the real cause of his debt and , if there was no question of fraud or any intention to abscond , he should not be held in custody for more than eight days and be discharged on filing common bail . |
| 28 | Eva knew what she wanted : she wanted the whole house transformed , every inch of it , and she wanted energetic , industrious people around her . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) Committees of the whole House , which are as the name suggest . |
| 30 | It is not uncommon for Bills of great public importance to go to a committee of the whole House . |