Example sentences of "around the house [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ECOVER cream cleaner is suitable for all areas in kitchens , bathrooms and around the house including acrylic and fibreglass surfaces . |
| 2 | ‘ I use objects around the house for the background , not only for portraits , but also for figure paintings . |
| 3 | But perhaps you can , perhaps you can kno knock up jobs around the house for your wife and perhaps you can build houses . |
| 4 | She walked away , around the house to the jetty where her skiff bobbed on its painter , puddled with rain . |
| 5 | You will look at your own child , whose current display of skills is limited to marching around the house with a pair of knickers on his head claiming to be Postman Pat , and you will get restless . |
| 6 | Remember that the vendor may not wish to have you around the house at all , so try to agree a mutually convenient time , starting at , say , 9am or 2pm , which will allow at least three daylight hours for the survey . |
| 7 | ‘ What did Miss Trunchbull call your father when they were around the house at home ? ’ |
| 8 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 9 | There was no motive , and Greg had no notion whether he was around the house at the time or not . |
| 10 | This can be a major problem for the sponsors of the Motion if there are not many Members around the House on the day on which it is decided to ‘ put the Motion down ’ or , in other words , to go public with it . |
| 11 | She stalked around the House of Mandru as if she was always in a rage about something . |
| 12 | She protested that she could n't go home , that she was n't allowed to hang around the house during the day , and Bunny said he did n't care where the hell she went as long as it was out of his sight . |
| 13 | She got into the coach , the steps were folded up , and in a moment the horses were trotting around the house towards the main drive . |
| 14 | The pampered town cat , by contrast , is often seen to be prowling around the house like a caged tiger . |
| 15 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 16 | We should n't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand , we 'll use them without thought ; we wo n't be able to resist . |
| 17 | I did what my master asked , trailing around the house like a ghost though no one really wished to speak to me . |
| 18 | I 'm not the sort of guy that sits around the house like you know . |
| 19 | Leonora leaned back thankfully against the piled pillows , listening to the wind , which howled around the house like a hundred banshees demanding entry . |
| 20 | Then 30 minutes back home again and about another four hours sitting around the house before retiring to bed . |
| 21 | They went around the house by the gravel drive to the east . |
| 22 | She slipped in and out of consciousness as the man dragged her around the house in Horfield , Bristol , carrying out repeated assaults . |
| 23 | 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 . |