Example sentences of "of the house and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four surviving landscapes Modigliani painted are dry , limpid scenes with an air of desolation ; trees dominate , cypress trees or leafless trees , standing like sentinels in front of the houses and buildings , as if waiting for the people to emerge . |
| 2 | One small memory stands out : in the street was a treadle sewing machine , removed from one of the houses and on the top of this item rescued from possible loss by fire — two quite green apples . |
| 3 | The path through the village , flanked on one side by the backs of the houses and on the other by the looming cliffside , was as pervasively dark as a cave and we kept stumbling over rocks , getting our feet wet in puddles and pools of mud . |
| 4 | several weeks previously , still lay packed in straw- and grit-speckled drifts on the sunless north-facing sides of the houses and thorn bush hedges . |
| 5 | This device was suspended by rope from the upper windows of the houses and as the bull charged , it would be hoisted into the air leaving ‘ Old Roger ’ to career futilely forward . |
| 6 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 7 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 8 | It was just after three in the morning , and there were no lights on in any of the houses and nothing moving on the street . |
| 9 | We 've actually got a situation outside where I live where a thirty mile an hour speed limit is erm finishes just in front of some of the houses and of course we 've got no access to their the gardens so we just park on the road . |
| 10 | No lights were on in any of the houses and the only living thing in sight was a brindled cat who froze on the pavement , surveyed the bleak October night , and padded arrogantly across the road . |
| 11 | Sinterklaas rides on a white horse on the roofs of the houses and throws presents down the chimneys to those children who have behaved well . |
| 12 | The Commissioners were required to make a comprehensive inventory of the houses and buildings , even " … household stuff plate & implemt … " , and covered equipment , wheels etc . |
| 13 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 14 | But if you go down that road even further there was er a , a couple there bought one of the houses and er |
| 15 | That is the time to get the thing out of the house and take up evening classes in deep-sea diving . |
| 16 | Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity . |
| 17 | They sat on arguing for three hours while Ella went into the other end of the house and sang quietly to the baby and wee Alex came home filthy from playing and sat drowsily beside the fire , chewing at the bones of the fowl . |
| 18 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 19 | Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night . |
| 20 | I went outside and walked round the side of the house and into the orchard . |
| 21 | And Maggie whisked herself down the stairs , out of the house and fifty yards along the street . |
| 22 | Rose 's coming to the house had smoothed their lives and allowed them to concentrate everything on school and study , which , above all , they saw as a way out of the house and into a life of their own . |
| 23 | Maggie burst into tears at the sight of the house and the small familiar crowd waiting for her outside the wooden gate of the garden . |
| 24 | Sheep graze within view of the house and also a herd of Aberdeen Angus , and a number of horses , some with foals . |
| 25 | And first , there was a long interruption to normal service at Prime Minister 's Question Time when two Tory backbenchers threw themselves in front of the House and got mown down by the Opposition roaring with ridicule . |
| 26 | Yesterday 's report was welcomed by both sides of the House and , hopefully , will prove the last case of its kind now that the savings indus try has set up its own investor com pensation scheme . |
| 27 | This has little to do with a conditioned eye , influenced by architectural orders , and more to do with a basic and instinctive feeling that lifts the spirit and brings about a sense of harmony between the scale of the house and the human frame . |
| 28 | Tall firs form a copse at the back of the house and great clumps of rhododendrons and laurels surround the lawns to the south , conserving the safe , dark Victorian atmosphere of the place . |
| 29 | The best of life was passed out of the house and out of school . |
| 30 | It appeared on the day that I was answering questions on transport on the floor of the House and there was a question on the future of railway services on the order paper . |