Example sentences of "[prep] the house and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 2 | Lord Rosebery responded quickly by saying that he would still sell to the nation , but was increasing the price from £2 to £3 million for the house and contents . |
| 3 | In 1954 the breed 's South African journal made the point that wool farmers wanted a breed of cattle that needed no coddling to produce milk for the house and top-price slaughter oxen whose main role was to keep the veld short for sheep , while the mixed grass veld farmer wanted a good cream cheque , a bullock to work and a profitable steer which could be fed on surplus grain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm the one who 's sacrificed my life paying for the house and its repairs and its decoration , and all the rest of it … . ’ |
| 6 | Remember also that cutting blooms for the house and dead-heading are forms of pruning , and the general principles should be observed , particularly with regard to leaving spurs . |
| 7 | Your list will include mortgage or rent , rates , gas and electricity , insurance and maintenance for the house and car , clothing , school fees and telephone bills . |
| 8 | It has to be said that the prospects for the house and farm buildings did not seem promising when Gordon Pratt of Hawes Auction Mart opened the bids on 28 October 1988 . |
| 9 | Candidates whose spending remained below the thresholds of $600,000 for the House and $5,500,000 for the Senate , would be eligible for federal campaign funds . |
| 10 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 11 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 12 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 13 | As the house and garage are circa 1930s it blends in nicely , looking ‘ old ’ from the start . |
| 14 | On a strip of land between the house and the kitchen garden over ninety species of wild flower now grow . |
| 15 | Between the house and the barn is the smallest of the three buildings which has been reconstructed as a cattle byre ( animal house ) . |
| 16 | Often there are people on the grass between the house and the lake . |
| 17 | These sporting contests between the house and the village ended with the arrival of a character who could have been dreamt up by central casting . |
| 18 | It is possible , however , that the search which then began for communal standards was prompted not only by this evident nadir of design , but by a wish to re-establish contact between the house and the community . |
| 19 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
| 20 | The kitchen door stood open revealing a strip of bumpy grass and yellow sandy gravel wide enough for a coach and four to turn in between the House and the stable block . |
| 21 | At £151.83 this would be a very useful tool to buy for those odd jobs about the house and garden . |
| 22 | Before Jennifer 's arrival he had left Hill House early in the morning and had returned home late ; now he sat over his breakfast in order to ogle her when she brought it to him , and came home early — and sober — to mooch about the house and engage her in conversation while she swept the rooms or tended the roast . |
| 23 | She told Pascoe about the house and the woman she had seen there ; she told a little of her meeting with Luke ; the rest she kept for herself . |
| 24 | While we were there we were told some ghost stories about the house and in one room there was a mummified cat to ward off evil spirits . |
| 25 | You are the one that might be missed about the house and the business . |
| 26 | The Bambara 's talk about the house and cattle they were going to buy made him wish that his father had agreed to move . |
| 27 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 28 | Everything about the house and its furnishings is big and very bright . |
| 29 | If Rosie was released from her collar and chain , she would charge through the house and grounds like a homicidal maniac in search of something to destroy . |
| 30 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |