Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 2 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 3 | He was last seen staggering out of the house into the street possiblity still being pursued by his assailants . |
| 4 | It was quite funny yesterday , because , he , when I went out in the garden there was a football nestling in the rose bushes , I heaved it back over the fence , thirty seconds later the two boys came roaring out of the house , and about thirty seconds after that |
| 5 | A little boy wearing a balaclava cap too large for him came trotting out of the house . |
| 6 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 7 | People began piling out of the house : two daughters-in-law , several small children , some unmarried daughters , two old grandfathers and the new bridegroom . |
| 8 | Eventually he asked her out , and , even though she knew her parents strongly disapproved of the flashy young man from London , she disobeyed them and started sneaking out of the house every night when they were asleep , to meet him . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 10 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 11 | The water went sluicing out of the house into the garden . |
| 12 | Sadly , this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards . |
| 13 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 14 | Leonora jumped out , stood looking up at the house for a few moments more , then ran up the steps to ring the doorbell , laughter bubbling up inside as she anticipated Penry 's surprise at the sight of her . |
| 15 | He turned and stood looking back at the house . |