Example sentences of "[vb past] around the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | It howled around the house , whistled through cracks in the window-frames and rattled slates on the roof . |
| 2 | Leonora leaned back thankfully against the piled pillows , listening to the wind , which howled around the house like a hundred banshees demanding entry . |
| 3 | We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that . |
| 4 | She took to living in her swimsuit , a colourful sarong tied at her hips , long black hair streaming loose and silken down her slender back , and Damian would watch her with intent eyes as she moved around the house , his eyes eating her up as she grew more and more sensual , her inhibitions almost completely erased by his lovemaking . |
| 5 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 6 | Anna walked around the house , looked into every room and , having inspected her new home , apparently satisfied , settled on Christine 's lap and went to sleep , exhausted after the journey . |
| 7 | Ross made no attempt to touch her , other than to gently place his hand occasionally on her elbow as they walked around the house and garden . |
| 8 | They went around the house by the gravel drive to the east . |
| 9 | He needed lights everywhere and went around the house switching them on . |
| 10 | By the time she was three , Matilda had taught herself to read by studying newspapers and magazines that lay around the house . |
| 11 | When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes . |
| 12 | ‘ We looked around the house and found the woman in a bedroom . |
| 13 | She stalked around the House of Mandru as if she was always in a rage about something . |
| 14 | Cameron , needing nothing , sat around the house , surrounded by other peoples ' books and music and art . |