Example sentences of "house on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel . |
| 2 | He pointed across the river at a squat grey house on the far bank with a stand of trees behind it . |
| 3 | You turn off the road into a wooded parked area opposite the first house on the right after leaving the village . |
| 4 | After much argument Gide received a letter from a trusted household servant , Marie , who ‘ swore she would leave the house on the day my ‘ negro' ’ came into it . |
| 5 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 6 | Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate . |
| 7 | His house on the hill had a magnificent view over the bay . |
| 8 | FROM 1907 to 1934 Sir Henry Newbolt , our great patriotic , nautical and sometimes contemplative poet , lived here in this lovely manor house on the village street of Netherhampton , backed by watermeadows and sheltered by the great chalk downs . |
| 9 | The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view . |
| 10 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 11 | She still said nothing to her family when she got home , but the next day she put her London house on the market . |
| 12 | That spring , Jane put the house on the market . |
| 13 | ‘ I called at his house on the way in . |
| 14 | Nanny lived in a big house on the corner of Lansdowne Place , near the club and the post office and opposite the big church . |
| 15 | An exhibition round : Arkle leads Mill House on the first circuit . |
| 16 | The only thing I could do was sit outside his house on the doorstep . |
| 17 | ‘ In the old days of walking and bicycles , you would walk down from your house to the village and stop at every house on the way for talk . |
| 18 | He currently divides his time between a flat in Paris and a house on the Cote D'Azur . |
| 19 | Nigel Mansell , who has a house on the course , is the club 's president . |
| 20 | She has a nice ( and one would guess , younger ) boyfriend , The First Wives Club has been a bestseller , and she has bought a country house on the proceeds of the film rights , which have been taken up by Sherry Lansing , who produced Fatal Attraction . |
| 21 | The centre of the composition is a London terrace of three houses , but No 87 is the last house on the next terrace to the left of it . |
| 22 | He would try and remember to post it in the Sandyford Toll Receiving House on the way back , if nothing else intervened . |
| 23 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 24 | We bought an old Victorian house on the Isle of Wight , in need of a great deal of renovation . |
| 25 | Beyond the solitary canal house on the towpath the canal disappears dramatically down to the steep hillside through the ‘ greatest lock staircase in England ’ , as L.T.C. Rolt puts it . |
| 26 | Towards the end of their stay in London the Mozarts visited the British Museum ( in its original home in Montagu House on the site of the present building — ( PLATE II ) ) . |
| 27 | The Countess d'Agoult , better known perhaps under her nom de plume of Daniel Stern , presided over a republican circle in her fine house on the Champs Elysées , while Juliette Adam , married to a rich banker and later to become the mistress of the republican politician Gambetta , maintained an equally republican salon in her ( less grand ) apartment on the Boulevard Poissonière . |
| 28 | Its report to NASA and the White House on the future of the US space programme put life sciences at the top of the list of experiments for the US space station to be built by the end of the century . |
| 29 | Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor . |
| 30 | A fine barn lies beyond and the wool room was in the house on the first floor away from the gallery . |