Example sentences of "the house on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife Mable scolded him out of the house on a bright May Saturday afternoon in the late 1920s . |
| 2 | They bound his small and wizened body in a white cloth and two grown sons carried it out of the house on a pair of pine poles resting almost weightlessly between their four strong shoulders . |
| 3 | MSF thought that the best solution was to put the house on a short-term lease and sell when the market improved . |
| 4 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 5 | Ministers are questioned in the House on a rota " basis for 45 to 55 minutes on Mondays to Thursdays . |
| 6 | The party emerged from the house on a silent swell of hilarity . |
| 7 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 8 | The privilege of addressing the House on a Friday morning and of winning the ballot to present a private Member 's motion is , however , something of a mixed blessing for hon. Members like myself who represent constituencies a long way from London . |
| 9 | If a party obtains a majority in the House on a programme of reform , it will endeavour to pass legislation through the House . |