Example sentences of "house and i " in BNC.

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1 Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ?
2 for one thing , if we 'd taken one of their houses and I 'd died first , my wife would of been left without a home
3 Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses .
4 ‘ Why do n't you take me back to my house and I 'll try some other way ? ’
5 The woman in particular was rather nervous of my presence in her house and I did n't blame her .
6 I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back .
7 My parents lived in the big house and I built a studio and had a whole little place where I could live in the basement and it was very convenient , so David would come round there . ’
8 The object of their adulation moseys into the house and I mosey in after him .
9 Both the house and I felt so vulnerable .
10 I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’
11 Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway .
12 I still do a lot of recording , because I have a recording setup in my house and I 'm in there most every night I can .
13 We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes .
14 So I 'm having an open house and I 've invited a load of friends round .
15 We banked over Bonefish 's house and I waved at Thessy who was standing beside Masquerade .
16 Mr Beecham 's voice was stiff now as he replied , ‘ We have always acted for the house and I shall be happy to continue doing so .
17 I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months .
18 He added : ‘ The kids would prefer to have me than the house and I ca n't afford to play for time . ’
19 I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk .
20 I rarely go to her house and I do n't think she 's ever been to my flat , but our friendship is very much part of our working lives .
21 I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops .
22 I 'd left with nothing because he was still in the house and I was terrified to go back .
23 " If he wanted something in the house and I did n't have it he 'd say , " What did you do with all the money ? "
24 " I do my full share of the work in this house and I wait on you .
25 She went back into the house and I waited outside for a while enjoying the cool breeze .
26 Two weeks in a safe house and I 'd be there ,
27 This analysis was adopted and approved by this House and I do not intend to cast any doubt on it .
28 Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision .
29 There was no electricity in the house and I can very well remember the gas lighting .
30 I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad .
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