Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 2 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 3 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 4 | Another day dawned and the mists from the river swirled and eddied round the banks and crept up to the house the Hanging Judge had built . |
| 5 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 6 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 7 | Jenna snapped , spinning away and storming off towards the house . |
| 8 | I 've had enough of the lights , so we turn round and head back to the house . |
| 9 | Alexei turned and shouted back into the house . |
| 10 | They swam and lazed on the beach , having a light lunch from one of the huts along the beach that served food , and drove back to the house towards the end of the evening in silence , Alyssia preoccupied with her thoughts . |
| 11 | Keith nodded and darted back to the house and Jinny walked on down the path , trying to ignore Rachel , who was in the doorway . |
| 12 | I went back to the dining-room window , and as I looked in again , Stapleton left the room and came out of the house . |
| 13 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 14 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
| 15 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
| 16 | I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house . |
| 17 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 18 | Instead , he turned round and strolled back to the house , leaving her standing there with a black scowl on her face . |
| 19 | Quadrant Park is a great , glitzy three- storeyed chasm of a club in Bootle , which on Saturday nights becomes a suffocating fleshpit of 2,500 north-western ravers tuned in and turned on to the house sound of Merseyside . |
| 20 | The cool air caressed her bare arms , and Folly shivered and turned back towards the house . |
| 21 | what must I do ? and look back at the house |
| 22 | He knocked out his pipe , climbed the steps to the road and walked along to the house . |
| 23 | Then she yawned , blinked , turned her back and walked off into the house . |
| 24 | Alyssia gazed at him for a fraction of a second , then she took his advice and walked back to the house , when what she wanted to do was run as far away as she could from it . |
| 25 | As he started the car and moved away , she turned and walked back into the house . |
| 26 | But when , after an hour , the rain eased off , she quietly got up and walked out of the house . |
| 27 | Old Donald looked at her , shocked and her son straightened as though lashed and flung out of the house . |
| 28 | Quickly Sophie picked up the telephone and rang through to the house . |
| 29 | ‘ She had a blazing row with Eddie and stormed out of the house , ’ Rachel replied . |
| 30 | He flung the book to the ground and stormed back towards the house , leaving Melissa open-mouthed . |