Sentences with phrase «run down house»

It might be your window sill dip grooves — designed to shed rainwater so it doesn't run down the house wall — are blocked and need to be reformed.
Andrew describes his first property as a dirty smelly run down house, which he purchased using bridge finance, credit cards and the local councils money.
In a similar setup to Silent Hill 2, you play as Ethan, who has travelled to a run down house in search of his wife who went missing years ago.
This year's shortlist cites London - based collective, Assemble, who have helped to transform run down housing estates such as Toxteth's Granby Four Streets.
Right now, there are a LOT of run down houses, some neighborhoods can be pretty rough with abandoned homes, lots of blight and obviously not very appealing to a wider, millennial audience.
This is very bad for home owners too as rent control leads to run down housing and not being able to control bad people in good neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

Jeffrey Ma was a key player toward the end of the team's run, and is the basis for the lead characters in both Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House and the 2008 film adaptation, 21.
And he even moved his family into a run - down building in Chicago for six months when he was working to end housing inequalities.
The annual Joint Base Lewis - McChord Down and Dirty Mud Run will return to Soldiers Field House on Lewis Main May 12.
I have witnessed trades for many stocks where you can clearly see the manipulative efforts of small block sell orders coming through, that appear to be intentionally forcing share price down... Much of this activity runs through the houses of Canada's biggest banks, and it almost always forces the price of stocks down to a point where liquidity and buy orders have completely dried up and there is no more stock floating around in the system to short.
Besides the fact that there was another Michael Hudson out there writing a Harper's cover story I wished I'd written, the thing that struck me was your willingness to go beyond a «what - goes - up - must - come - down» analysis of the housing run - up.
Much of this activity runs through the houses of Canada's biggest banks, and it almost always forces the price of stocks down to a point where liquidity and buy orders have completely dried up and there is no more stock floating around in the system to short.
That's why we have these old stories about wolves chasing little girls, step - mothers planning the death of young innocent ones, and little boys being run down by malicious witches in candy houses.
I'd be just as likely to take you on a walk up the mountainside near our house, under the canopy of the trees, so you could listen to the water running in the dozens of creeks dancing down waterfalls of stones, the water bright and cold and clear, heading for the Fraser River, moving towards the fullness of complete ocean.
Nothing would befall the market economy in the long run if we tempered our desires down to one car and a small house and healthy foods from the co-op.
If a Teenage child runs away because they don't like the just rules laid down by their parents for the house, and this same teen finds themselves hungry, homeless and alone, is it the parents fault, or could you say the parents «condemned» that teen to hunger and homelessness?
When I was growing up, there was a house just down from ours which took the owners about 17 years to build because they kept running out of money.
When we open our house in the country in the spring we know that it will still be winter on our hill; Crosswicks is a good three weeks behind New York, where the Cathedral Close is bursting with blossom, and the cement islands which run down the middle of Broadway are astonishing with the glory of magnolia blooms.
when rommey first came out to run for President, all the christian stations said we do not want a cult in the white house, now the Christian are supporting him, the Bible must fulfill, in the last days we wil call evil good and good evil, I feel sorry for these so - call christian, you need to get down on your knees and ask God for direction regarding voting for a cult.
i had a dog who made his way out of the house, down the elevator, and into the basement carpark, where he got involved in a hit and run.
All the back - and - forth between the kitchen to where I photograph my recipes (on the far end of the house and down two flights of stairs in the basement) had me feeling like I'd just run a marathon and climbed the Empire State Building!
Ever since I went to a Japanese restaurant as a small human, and drank cups and cups of the DELICIOUS green tea, and then ran around the house for literal hours, bouncing off the walls, cartwheeling, and performing trapeze acts down the stairway bannister, I have been hesitant to take even a sip of caffeine.
She jumps down and runs into the house.
Just enough for the kids to sled down the hill at Grandma's house a few times before they'd run inside to warm up their fingers and toes.
I was there to present my own house cocktail, and to have it recreated, broken down, and critiqued by a master — Jim Meehan, who runs PDT (it stands for Please Don't Tell) and is the author of the excellent PDT Cocktail Book.
For example, there is only one curry recipe on here, despite the fact that we eat curry at least once a week — though to be fair, a large portion of the curry consumed is from Bs favorite curry house down the road, run by a somewhat grumpy manager named Harry who rarely smiles and is infamous for selling beer two years past it's used by date.
I'm not entirely sure, but running into a compete stranger's house and plopping down on the couch is probably frowned upon.
But your final sentence is rather like saying someone who lives in a run down 1 bedroom flat would love to live in a two bedroom terrace house, while the rich and determined ex-neighbours live in a palace.
Michigan fans will enjoy seeing another Wheatley running down the Big House sidelines.
There are those around the NFL who say that the Kansas City Chiefs are running a halfway house for aging stars on their way down.
You running to the ball when it doesn't look like you could possibly make the play can be the difference between the running back getting tackled 10 yards down the field after he cuts back or him taking it to the house.
Fowler had an up - and - down round, dropping down the board on his front nine but then making a run on the back to get in the house with a 1 - under 71.
If Kompany had stood still and Monreal had run into him that's no pen; but Kompany deliberately moved sideways to stop Monreal getting to the ball, and Nacho went down after running into big brick sh*t house.
which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course
He started running down the street and she ran with him, and when the sound of pistol shots came from the house, Moon and Felicia dived to the sidewalk together.
On its third attempt, the plane finally went up, but came back down again just a few miles past the end of the run - way, crashing through a house, and bursting into a ball of flames.
The house appears every now and then — it's been a long rescue project to turn it from a run down building with history (it was an ale house, a monkey lived here for a while and back in the 18th century it was a peruke makers) into a cosy family home for the six of us and it's still ongoing!
When you're in your friend's house for a play - date with the kids, and your kid comes running down the stairs, crying because the host child won't let her play with any of the toys in the house.
Although I'm hoping to be slightly less neurotic as a second - time - mum, we are in a house this time, so being able to quickly see if the baby is stirring will save us running up and down the stairs a million times each evening (although I'm sure I will anyway).
Everything happened SO quickly... He was running around getting the midwife and assistant sponsored onto the military base, WHILE filling the pool, and then he dropped off our older daughter at a friends house down the street.
Look at it this way; a newborn will not be able to run around the house, as a grown - up baby won't like the idea of constantly lying down.
So if you have a little diaper changing monster running around your house I would definitely suggest giving them a try — you have nothing to lose but a melt down and we could all stand to lose one of those, hehe.
Every night it just seems like a miracle that the ball of energy running through the house, screaming and pointing and rearranging every toy in sight could wind down into the peaceful sleeping child in my arms.
While it's true that we shouldn't feel like we need to tip - toe around our house every time our baby is asleep, we also shouldn't put baby down and then blare the music, run the vacuum in their bedroom, or whatever other «tricks» we can use to «get baby used to the noise».
The trick - or - treaters will be running down the street to check out your house with all its homemade Halloween decorations.
Set up stations for diaper changes accessible in convenient locations around the house so you're not running up and down stairs to your child's room because you forgot that diaper (yes it happens) or to locate the diaper - rash cream when it's time for a change.
Parenting is like firefightingYou put out one flame (diaper changes, tantrums, breaking dishes, starvation) while the other flames escalate (fighting over light sabers, punching brothers, running into the road with no pants in 4 degree weather, flooding the toilet, dumping apple juice all over the floor) and you can try the best you can but you are only 1 firefighter and you got 4 raging flames about to burn your house down and very rarely are all 4 flames extinguished.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: «It is simply not acceptable that people are handing over their hard - earned cash to live in houses that are run - down, squalid and in some cases even dangerous.
For the sake of the economy there couldn't be a better time for those with housing equity to run - down some of their assets and use it to maintain their standard of living.
Not long after the governor's solo Red Room appearance, select Senate Republicans — Sens. Rich Funke, George Amedore, Sue Serino, Terrence Murphy, basically all those in closely - divided and / or contested districts — started releasing statements, blasting the governor for the broken down budget talks, and accusing him of being more concerned about his political ambitions (read: A 2020 White House run) than his current job.
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