Example sentences of "sit [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | By rights Sue should be more adept at shop work because , after school and while waiting to go to RADA , she served in one of the hardware stores owned by her then businessman father , who became a Midlands MP and now sits in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | He sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher and is active in debates , particularly on environmental issues . |
| 3 | Not only do the hereditary peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords outnumber life peers by over two to one , but the hereditary principle ensures a constant supply of new blood , while during the eighties the Labour benches became thinner and thinner , as their life peers grew older and more infirm . |
| 4 | It is not clear why any of the clergy should be disqualified ( as opposed to restrained by their own professional ethics ) at all , except that in the case of the Church of England some sort of case can then be made out by reason of the right of bishops to sit in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 6 | Sit in the house and wait for you coming ? |
| 7 | The most senior judges sit in the House of Lords and may take part in its legislative and other activities . |
| 8 | Trevor takes care of the rest of the garden , plants up the giant tubs that sit outside the house , helps the Prince plan new features and site new trees and additional flower beds . |
| 9 | Most peers are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons ( see below , pp.76–80 ) and it was thus at one time the case that a promising political career could be cut short by the involuntary inheritance of a title . |
| 10 | ( ii ) Infants — when the age of majority was reduced from 21 to 18 years for most purposes , qualification for sitting in the House of Commons was expressly excluded from its ambit ( Family Law Reform Act 1969 , s.1(4). s.2 , para.2 ) . |
| 11 | And if my husband 's out I 'm sitting in the house |
| 12 | ‘ But I would n't mind taking a couple of years just sitting round the house and reading , ’ the 43-year-old actor , who is married to Cindy Crawford , told Oprah Winfrey on American TV yesterday . |
| 13 | Then 30 minutes back home again and about another four hours sitting around the house before retiring to bed . |
| 14 | She adds : ‘ I 've worked since I was married 15 years ago and I could n't imagine just sitting around the house all day . |
| 15 | Frank did nothing but sit in the house for two days silent and with tears . |
| 16 | The short answer to the question ‘ who may sit in the House of Lords ? ’ is the same as to the question ‘ who may sit in the House of Commons ? ’ , and it is ‘ anyone whom the House admits as a member ’ . |
| 17 | The short answer to the question ‘ who may sit in the House of Lords ? ’ is the same as to the question ‘ who may sit in the House of Commons ? ’ , and it is ‘ anyone whom the House admits as a member ’ . |
| 18 | Is it not a matter of great rejoicing , wherever we may sit in the House , that throughout the past 40 years , which have seen such momentous changes as the peaceful transition from empire to Commonwealth , the ending of the cold war and the coming together of former enemies in the European Community , Her Majesty has presided over this nation unfailingly , with a dignity and devotion to duty for which we are all greatly thankful ? |
| 19 | If people are gon na sit around the house while they 're unemployed , they 're probably the same people who sit around the house when they 're on a Saturday and Sunday when they 're working you know . |
| 20 | If people are gon na sit around the house while they 're unemployed , they 're probably the same people who sit around the house when they 're on a Saturday and Sunday when they 're working you know . |
| 21 | I 'm not the sort of guy that sits around the house like you know . |
| 22 | It was terrible , I just sat in the house all day and when my husband was n't working he 'd just scream at me and the kids would be screaming and he 'd be hitting them . " |
| 23 | Cameron , needing nothing , sat around the house , surrounded by other peoples ' books and music and art . |