Example sentences of "[art] edge of [art] village " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's on the edge of a village , but quite secluded , there 's a little river too . ’ |
| 2 | We stayed that night in an empty holiday home we discovered on the edge of a village . |
| 3 | This comfortable pension is located on the edge of the village , but only five minutes from all the facilities in the resort centre . |
| 4 | Any elderly crone , who happened to be ugly or misshapen enough to have repelled all potential husbands , and who was therefore forced to live a solitary life with no children of her own , often as an outcast on the edge of the village , was desperately in need of companionship . |
| 5 | From the edge of the village the whole valley — the fields , the growing crops , the river — had been transformed into a steaming white nether-world . |
| 6 | After the questioning , Mr and Mrs Mackenzie were driven home again to the manse on the edge of the village of St Margaret 's Hope . |
| 7 | When school was over , Mr Trilby decided to investigate further , so he walked to the house where Miss Trunchbull lived on the edge of the village , the lovely small red-brick Georgian building known as The Red House , tucked away in the woods behind the hills . |
| 8 | This document revealed that ever since her father 's death , Miss Honey had in fact been the rightful owner of a property on the edge of the village known as The Red House , which until recently had been occupied by a Miss Agatha Trunchbull . |
| 9 | The problem of living in the big stone-built Manor House on the edge of the village , with the trees shielding it from the road , and the drive . |
| 10 | A battery of guns stood at the edge of the village , some cavalry horses stood unsaddled in the street beyond , and a battalion of infantry was bivouacked in a field to the right of the guns , but otherwise the enemy was hidden , and so Sharpe stuck with his earlier estimate . |
| 11 | At intervals an enemy horseman might appear at the edge of the village to gaze through a spyglass at the Dutch positions , but no attacks followed such reconnaissances , no skirmishers wormed their way through the fields , and no cannon crashed shell or roundshot at the fragile Dutch lines . |
| 12 | To avoid his being rounded up by the Germans for STO ( Service du Travail Obligatoire ) and sent to the munitions factories in the east , Montaine and Mme Guérigny hid Jean-Claude in a sunken hollow in the grounds of a crumbling manor house at the edge of the village . |
| 13 | The Guérignys ’ smallholding on the edge of the village of Préfleur had fallen into dilapidation ; the roof of the red , herring-bone-brick house and stabling had caved in , leaving the ribs exposed and the heart shattered . |
| 14 | The safe shelter he had found on the edge of the village could not have been more comfortable , for all that on awakening and having his first lightsome look it struck him as a mite strange . |
| 15 | Her mother went with her to the edge of the village . |
| 16 | What appeared to be merely an area of shrinkage on the edge of the village has , therefore , turned out to be very important in the history of settlement in the area — a small independent hamlet with its own church which was eventually abandoned . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he takes you along to his house , which is one of a line of council houses on the edge of the village , just before the plain recommences its reign . |
| 18 | So now we have this church on top of this hill on the edge of the village . |
| 19 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 20 | The Wheelers live in a modest terraced house on the edge of the village … no one ever guessed it would become millionaires row . |
| 21 | He was chairman of the gas works , which stood on the edge of the village , and he kept a large stud of racehorses , of which he was passionately fond . |
| 22 | At the edge of the village , Mr Forbes said , Ballantine 's car began to overtake . |