Example sentences of "on the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , apart from the devastation , especially in the harbour area , the only real dissimilarities I noticed were the shutters on the houses and the fact that the dwellings were all taller and narrower than in England . |
| 2 | Note the flagpoles on the houses . |
| 3 | Note that the emblems on the houses down this street are most attractive . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Hunt had carried out further costing work for Barry on the Houses of Parliament , and when Hall arrived at the Office of Works with the dispute over expenditure between Barry and the Office at its height , he shrewdly persuaded Hunt to change sides in an attempt to gain the upper hand . |
| 5 | Apparently it was a joint effort with his father , Sir Charles Barry , who as an employee of the Government on the Houses of Parliament was officially debarred from entering the competition . |
| 6 | In due course ( usually about the end of January ) such Bills will come up for a second reading , i.e. they will appear again on the order paper for consideration during private business , the first item on the Houses ' agenda after prayers , usually 2.35 to 2.40 or 2.45 p.m . |
| 7 | When the structural work on the houses was completed , the furniture , tapestries , paintings , carpets and hangings were restored and replaced . |
| 8 | Considerable damage was done both by the defenders , who had burned the suburbs before retreating within the walls , and by the Parliamentary troops who wreaked vengeance on the houses of Royalist gentry and upon the hated cathedral . |
| 9 | Surveyor Chris Easton , who conducted extensive tests on the houses , said : ‘ I think there is nothing else to do but demolish these homes . |
| 10 | A woman in the Northeast involved in a campaign to improve colliery houses arrived at a lodge meeting with material on the houses for the members . |
| 11 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 12 | More will be said of its proposals in the next chapter on the houses of the great , but , as a sample of Pugin 's diagnosis , the small print of his satiric illustration , ‘ dedicated , without permission , to THE TRADE ’ , repays examination ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 13 | The stucco on the houses that rose like cliffs of grey stone in the rue de Sèvres was enough to depress me in itself , blotched as it was with building acne , let alone the drains blocked with refuse and the greasy pipes round which foaming suds slept fitfully . |
| 14 | I heard before my release that they were thinking of having screws on the houses all night . |
| 15 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 16 | They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out . |
| 17 | Oh it was yes , I mean y when you take now erm er a boatman , I mean , and he , he like today well they ring up , I mean today I know the Ipswich Port Authority they lay the phone on the houses and they pay for it for 'em |
| 18 | Stone-throwing attacks were subsequently reported on the houses of the Indian-born magistrate and defence lawyer . |
| 19 | He 's looking at the numbers on the houses is n't he ? |
| 20 | It depends on , on the houses . |
| 21 | He 's just won on the houses ai n't he ? |
| 22 | There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane . |
| 23 | At a press conference yesterday , he was asked whether he is willing to negotiate or accept a compromise on the House measure . |
| 24 | The only real insurance , so far as foreign currency mortgages are concerned , is to cover the foreign currency mortgage with income in the same currency , and also secure the loan on the house in the same currency . |
| 25 | The advantage of this is that when you start gigging , you have someone out front who knows your songs , and who can either mix your sound or at least keep an eye on the house engineer . |
| 26 | They first set eyes on the house which was to be ‘ home ’ for the rest of Jack 's life on 7 July 1930 . |
| 27 | On the evening of September 7 a small army of security agents , including Wally and Valenzuela , began converging on the house . |
| 28 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 29 | This will go some way to draw the fire of the Government 's critics , but he can still expect a rough ride for the bill on the House of Lords . |
| 30 | She had to go through with it now , as she had exchanged contracts on the house . |