Example sentences of "around the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unusual smells , stains or marks on the body or clothes , or around the house |
| 2 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 3 | Similarly , We would like to have a bit of grass around the house and a nice view . |
| 4 | Moran washed and polished the car , even cleared rusted machinery from around the house . |
| 5 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 6 | She 's now able to walk around the house although outside she has to use a wheelchair . |
| 7 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 8 | The Stotherts work on the theory that modest things can look good in the right surroundings , and there are plenty of examples around the house . |
| 9 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 10 | A feeling of peace and calm pervades the place , and the silence in and around the house somehow seems more complete than if one was standing , say , in the middle of an open field . |
| 11 | Having planted avenues and pleasure grounds around the house , he then set about the building of farms and the planting of woods . |
| 12 | David was 4½ when he first went to school and not unlike most mothers Mrs Jones was upset at not having him around the house . |
| 13 | He was banging non-stop around the house all day , bellowing ‘ TELEPHONE ’ when everyone could hear it ring , sitting at the piano without even looking at the keys , and making an excruciating racket . |
| 14 | If you are walking anywhere , even around the house , walk more quickly . |
| 15 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 16 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 17 | She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue . |
| 18 | Cameron , needing nothing , sat around the house , surrounded by other peoples ' books and music and art . |
| 19 | To take an example , suppose two mothers regularly go for coffee in each other 's homes and take along their respective toddlers , and that one parent gets quite distressed at the children running riot around the house whilst the other is seemingly oblivious . |
| 20 | Apart from putting things up , you 're bound to carry out a variety of odd fixing and repair jobs around the house . |
| 21 | A filling knife : Lots of simple repair jobs around the house involve the use of filler of one kind or another — patching cracks in plasterwork , filling holes and defects in wood , replacing old putty in window frames and so on . |
| 22 | Endill spent most of his time running around the house , hunting for things to explore . |
| 23 | Endill kept finding empty bottles around the house . |
| 24 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
| 25 | Musical ‘ jam sessions ’ ( commonly known as making a row ) , singing nursery rhymes , silly dancing around the house is included as my favourite therapy . |
| 26 | It was growing dark and a sharp wind was coming in off the Mediterranean , blowing up the dust around the house . |
| 27 | It was an odd feeling and perhaps accounts for why I delayed my departure so long , wandering around the house many times over , checking one last time that all was in order . |
| 28 | The sight of his figure pushing a trolley loaded with cleaning utensils , mops , brushes arranged incongruously , though always tidily , around teapots , cups and saucers , so that it at times resembled a street-hawker 's barrow , became a familiar one around the house . |
| 29 | He makes a point of acquiring a substantial area of grounds , not just the lawns immediately around the house , but the walled gardens and shrubberies beyond , running to twenty or even fifty acres . |
| 30 | He 's always sending me flowers , leaving me notes around the house or crazy messages on the answering machine . |