burning house

collocation in English

meaningsofburningandhouse

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burning
adjective
uk
/ˈbɜː.nɪŋ/us
/ˈbɝː.nɪŋ/
producing ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofburningandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Indeed, the perspective of the woman's family would probably best predict how the woman herself would feel when confronted with the existential challenge of aburninghouse.
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Rumour has it he saved children from aburninghousebut didn't want to be deemed as a hero in his family.
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He has said that as a child his life was saved by a firefighter who rescued him from hisburninghouse.
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By 9 o'clock, those left inside got set to break out the back door of theburninghouse.
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And how much more so when, through an expedient means, they are rescued from thatburninghouse!
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One firefighter suffered minor injuries to his leg when he lost his balance and fell near theburninghouse.
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In 2002, at the age of 65, he returned briefly to the limelight for entering aburninghouseto rescue a woman trapped inside.
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Before the boys had time to react, they saw the bulldog run back into theburninghouse.
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The silent film portrayed aburninghouseand the firemen who arrive to quench the flames and rescue the inhabitants.
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By 9 p.m., those left inside got set to break out the back door of theburninghouse.
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Matsuyama pulls her out of theburninghouse.
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Two medieval stories tell of men who save their lives in aburninghouseby staying submerged inside the acid barrel.
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So you must come out of thisburninghouseat once.
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As the nitrate film quickly blazes out of control he is overwhelmed by the smoke and passes out inside theburninghouse, still clutching a single film canister.
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Peter reenters theburninghouseand confronts the ghosts of his family; they forgive him and tell him to leave to save himself.
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Werner who tried to save them, by going inside theburninghouse.
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Walter and a group of confederates arrive, having seen theburninghouse.
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Bates barely gets out of theburninghousealive.
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