Example sentences of "in the house [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seldom in the house except to eat or sleep and when he was all he ever did was yell , ‘ Get the tea . |
| 2 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 3 | An environmental change can ease this : it is much easier to say that you do n't have any sweets in the house than to say ‘ no ’ to a child who knows that they are in the cupboard . |
| 4 | The undue power of committee chairmen in relation to their colleagues was more of a problem in the House than in the Senate , but in the latter a system of legislative norms or folkways made possible dominance of the proceedings by leading members of the Senate inner club or establishment . |
| 5 | Instead , he had seemed more interested in the house than in the school . |
| 6 | I 'd rather have a rat in the house than a dog |
| 7 | When she was about ten months old , baby Sylvia was lying in her cot in the house while her mother was busy in the kitchen . |
| 8 | ‘ Who was in the house while he was here ? ’ |
| 9 | Oh , God , his girlfriend had actually been in the house while he was making love to her . |
| 10 | ‘ Mother says he can not smoke in the house while I am with child . ’ |
| 11 | After going out manicuring she started spending Sunday afternoons in bed and we could n't stay in the house nor play on the doorstep for fear of disturbing her . |
| 12 | ‘ And me all alone in the house since my son went to England . |
| 13 | They have managed to do this without losing the original character of the building ; marble fireplaces , Victorian and Georgian chests , a collection of clocks and a grand piano which has been in the house since the turn of the century , all seem to be very much at home here . |
| 14 | Having spent 13 years in this place , I still find it truly remarkable that , with regard to such important issues — Croatia is receiving perhaps its first real airing in the House since the tragedy began to unfold — we are having this debate at 3.35 am . |
| 15 | In Connecticut Gary Franks became the first black Republican to serve in the House since the Second World War . |
| 16 | Things did n't go right in the house so I left and ran away . |
| 17 | A tall thin guy I had seen in the house before crawled on all fours in front of the television to get at Nicola 's joint . |
| 18 | Well a they , I mean they , as we say they mo , had everything done in the house before they moved in |
| 19 | Small items of both financial and sentimental value should never be left in the house unless a good safe has been installed . |
| 20 | I accept that , and I admit that there have been occasions when I and other hon. Members have blackmailed various organisations , including British Rail , with the amount of time that we would take in the House unless they did something to improve the position of our constituents . |
| 21 | Now Mr Baker is a man of substance , who , as a backbencher in the year Mrs Thatcher came to power , said in the House that a backbencher trod a fine line between sycophancy and rebellion . |
| 22 | ‘ Have n't you a woman in the house that 's not your wife ! ’ ’ |
| 23 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |
| 24 | On the following day , Lewis returned to the position of before the competition , when he said in the House that the land authorized under the 1855 Act ‘ would be sufficient for the site of the two offices which it was now contemplated to erect ’ . |
| 25 | In fact , a submissive cat in the house that has ‘ had enough ’ and is about to defend itself will often dilate its pupils rapidly just before it lashes out at you . |
| 26 | To begin with we used what paper , pens and pencils we could put together from our hand luggage and from among the belongings left in the house that we had been bundled into . |
| 27 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 28 | He was a good listener ; he was about the only one in the house that was these days . |
| 29 | They were in the house that Luke and Carla shared . |
| 30 | I noted , also with satisfaction , that there was hardly an article in the house that could have cost more than £5 . |