Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's taxing agents , the Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise officials , levy taxes only with the House of Commons ' approval . |
| 2 | There was a light on in the house on stilts ; he could see a faint glow through the curtains of the window on the left of the door . |
| 3 | Perhaps you have shelves full of books all over the house . |
| 4 | Will I be able to move the car up outside the house a bit later on ? |
| 5 | These rulers were replaced several centuries later by the House of St Arnulf , the family line of Charlemagne . |
| 6 | A flight of steps leads up from the courtyard and there is entry also from the house end . |
| 7 | With a quick glance back at the house he ran to the car . |
| 8 | Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night . |
| 9 | ‘ So I just — I got the kids out of the house — ‘ n ’ I rang this number . ’ |
| 10 | Votes for anti-discrimination and throws Lucy out of the house for fear of moral contamination . |
| 11 | Everything happened very quickly after he had got Maisie back to the house . |
| 12 | Walking the dogs kept Delia Sutherland out of the house until six-thirty . |
| 13 | Depending on the obstructions you find , you could site the building exactly alongside the house , bring it forward of the building line ( if the planners will allow this — see later ) , or set it back into the garden . |
| 14 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 15 | We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to spend a few hours away from the house , ’ Julius suggested , before she had time to stalk off . |
| 17 | If you , too , have a dust-covered garter bar somewhere about the house that you are feeling guilty about , you might like to find it again , dust if off and try the following techniques : |
| 18 | Poor Ivy alone in the house with her and sudden strange conversations about spiritualism and the stars . |
| 19 | I could n't bear the thought of hearing that voice again — the low , small voice like that of a child alone in a house at night . |
| 20 | So as that we 'll hear the telephone all over the house . |
| 21 | She argued and pleaded with him , and warned Carolyn to keep Alan away from the house . |
| 22 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 23 | And every big mansion house had a place about at least ten feet away from the house , where they had a store for holding the tins . |
| 24 | When we arrived on the island , my mother and I followed Greta up to the house . |
| 25 | And before the funeral the they would he would probably have to take a window out of the house . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll never get that boy out of the house . |
| 27 | When you start to build bonfires in someone 's back garden , there 's never enough space between the fire and the property , and consequently you can get all sorts of damage er either of a minor nature of blistering , or at the other end of the scale complete burn out of the house . |
| 28 | Planting it outside the backdoor was a sure way of keeping witches out of the house , and it was thought never to be struck by lightning ; cutting it brought bad luck , and traditionally it was the wood the Cross of Calvary . |
| 29 | I had to heave the old hag out of the house when I got married . |
| 30 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |