Example sentences of "[prep] the house but " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case , Lord Reid , obiter , gave as an example justifying the assertion by the House of total jurisdiction a situation where the Court of Appeal had resolved the point of law subsequently certified for the House but had left outstanding other issues which might result in acquittal : |
| 2 | A lumpish Belgian girl called Lise who did menial tasks about the house but hardly ever spoke was grating cheese over a rice dish . |
| 3 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 4 | I now realised that there must have been other little gaps and vacancies about the house but , between the tablets and the total absence of any careless talk , I had wiped the whole unfortunate episode right out of my head … |
| 5 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 6 | The challenge then is to find a new use which will not only secure the future of the house but undo some of the damage that has been done . |
| 7 | I do n't want to push her out of the house but I just know I 've reached the stage of not being able to cope any more . ’ |
| 8 | Because of the flexibility of the timber-frame construction , we were able to change bedrooms two and three into another master bedroom with en-suite bathroom , while the living room and wardrobe have been turned into a self-contained flat with a kitchen/living room , bedroom and bathroom — all reached from the main part of the house but also via a separate back door . |
| 9 | He asserted explicitly that he appealed ‘ not … to the feelings or the passions of the House but to the stubborn facts , incapable of contradiction ’ . |
| 10 | They had a good supper of eggs and milk and crunchy , fresh bread in the kitchen which was as clean as the rest of the house but more cheerful with a big range fire that threw out heat like a furnace . |
| 11 | I try to look in the windows of the house but they 're either covered with those plastic roll-down external shutters you usually see in France or closed off inside by Venetian blinds . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course it was the bedroom belonging to the head of the house but he could n't have turned mother out . ’ |
| 13 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 14 | I am sure that not only hon. Members on this side of the House but the majority of people in this country wish my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my other right hon. Friends well in their very important negotiations in Maastricht . |
| 15 | Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles . |
| 16 | I hope that this excellent measure will receive not only the assent of the House but the strong support of everyone who has been so concerned about this issue during 1991 . |
| 17 | The pursuers then concluded a contract for the purchase of the house but subsequently raised an action of damages against the defenders , based on negligence , in which they averred that there were many patent defects in the house which should have been apparent to surveyors of ordinary competence exercising reasonable care . |
| 18 | He had made a search of the house but eventually had found her body in a garage which was locked from the inside . |
| 19 | And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe . |
| 20 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |
| 21 | They did eventually go out of the house but he was about done and then he comes in five to seven . |
| 22 | He held his hand out in a gesture for her to come into the house but in that second she knew she never could . |
| 23 | The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all . |
| 24 | As the Dragoons were still looking for him , he would not stay in the house but had a small cave dug nearby , with a gorse bush to hide the entrance . |
| 25 | I remember that we did n't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden . |
| 26 | Most flooring can be laid anywhere in the house but there are some obvious choices for certain rooms . |
| 27 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 28 | I managed to stop drinking for four months : I kept a bottle in the house but I never touched it . |
| 29 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 30 | Much of the strongest criticism was voiced not by the judges in the House but by non-lawyers such as Lord Benson who had chaired the Royal Commission on Legal Services which reported in 1979 . |