Example sentences of "over the house and " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Tell me , were you taken all over the house and grounds to make your survey or whatever you do ? ’
2 I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’
3 They remembered uncomfortably that Tobermory moved freely all over the house and gardens , at all hours of the day and night .
4 And he very kindly shows Howard all over the house and garden .
5 The voices and the song washed dimly down out of the night , through the pine-forest , over the house and out to sea .
6 As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it .
7 Just then the raucous clamour of alarm bells sounded from all over the house and from the basement area ahead of him .
8 But it was nice in the winter — time too when the snow lay like a thick , white blanket over the house and the fields beyond it .
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