Example sentences of "woman [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house . |
| 2 | and you should be the Woman of the House ? |
| 3 | On the small farms the woman of the house looked after the home and the farmyard — stable and cattle-byre , pigsty , hen-house , hayrick and turfrick , the straw-covered pit of turnips and mangels . |
| 4 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 5 | Other witnesses have described seeing such a woman near the house . |
| 6 | Two children in the car were rescued unhurt , and a woman inside the house narrowly avoided being hit by debris . |
| 7 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 8 | She flew into a rage and vowed she would not accept Silas 's ring until he 'd evicted that bossy , domineering woman from the house in which they would begin their married life . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Have n't you a woman in the house that 's not your wife ! ’ ’ |
| 10 | And the woman in the house . |
| 11 | Like the woman in the house in Hill View Road , her hands were covered in rings . |
| 12 | If there was a woman in the house she was sloppy , and that did n't seem to go with Archer . |
| 13 | The red-haired woman in the house next door most certainly heard it , and hurried to another upstairs window to look out the back , for the cry seemed to have come from the yard of her neighbour 's house . |
| 14 | I do n't think I ever saw a nude woman in the house — certainly there were women in various states of undress … but never nude . " |
| 15 | It is lovely to have another woman in the house . ’ |
| 16 | You raped the woman in the house , did n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | Like the woman in the house by the woods . |
| 18 | He said that the woman in the house had only a table and television , and had spent the night before polishing the table so that it would bring in a wee bit extra to clear her debt . |
| 19 | That might have been an inference , I do n't , it seems , it was there it was it was said by somebody er as a matter of course or whatever and it might well have been that erm certainly it would have been mentioned at the briefing that there was er a woman in the house , Mrs possibly and the likelihood of children , er was possibly also mentioned but there was no definite intelligence as to er the having any children . |
| 20 | It has n't always been easy being the only woman in the house ! |
| 21 | I said the onus on the woman in the house to think , to plan , to prepare it 's her ! |
| 22 | So the women of the house would be involved . |
| 23 | Having the other two women in the house taught Lisa something new about herself ; she and Jonathan stopped sleeping together , which left them all short of space . |
| 24 | The women in the house are all toting thirty-eights in their Gucci bags . |
| 25 | Earning the obedience and respect of the women in the house , who saw her as no better than they were , was yet another obstacle . |
| 26 | Kate had told him that at present there were only women in the house and it seemed sensible that he should have a woman with him , particularly as it was Kate who had first broken the news . |
| 27 | The prince was shaking and the women in the house , the old principessa and his sisters were blaming him , you see they all thought that Anna was going to take Constanza away with her to America . |
| 28 | ‘ Father had more than enough of women in the house and the business . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There are only two women in the house , Sir Henry , ’ he answered . |
| 30 | It was n't half past nine when this one started , and neither of the old women in the house was in bed . |