Sentence examples for off the houses from inspiring English sources

"We left on 29 August 1930 – HMS Harebell took us off". The houses remained unlocked and in each was left a Bible, one of them open at Exodus.

But it doesn't fit with Cameron's promise that the elderly won't have to sell off the houses they have worked hard to buy.

"Look, as long as the roofs are not blowing off the houses, this is a good place to be," he said.

In Arthur, freed from poverty by increasingly skilled factory work and from deference by the quietude of peacetime, Sillitoe created a hero both articulate and cynical, hedonistic and hard-working, an angry joker who voted communist in the spirit of supporting the underdog, bucked against the "capital G of government" and toyed with raffling off the Houses of Parliament.

Their laughter echoes off the houses opposite as I move quickly to skirt around them on the narrow pavement.

There's a roaring when it pulls the roofs off the houses," Lumberto Campbell, a local official in Puerto Cabezas, told a radio station before being cut off.

The television is off, the house silent.

"Just before this happened he paid off the house.

The others, including Yuriy, 18, and Khrystyna, 10, showed off the house.

Diane Barbee, returning to the scene, could feel intense heat radiating off the house.

She'll say something like: "The roof flew off the house during Katrina.