Example sentences of "once the home " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 200-year-old mansion was once the home of the Balfours of Balbirnie and them the headquarters of the GDC . |
| 2 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |
| 3 | Then on to Austria 's best-preserved medieval castle , Schloss Tratzberg , which was once the home of the Austrian Imperial family . |
| 4 | It was once the home of the Ranger in Greenwich Park and also a retreat from the City for the statesman , Lord Chesterfield . |
| 5 | It was once the home of the Irish poet Thomas Moore . |
| 6 | There are a profusion of historic buildings to visit ; within half an hour 's drive you can visit Penshurst Place , a Tudor manor house ; Chartwell , once the home of Sir Winston Churchill ; Hever Castle , once the home of Anne Boleyn , and Leeds Castle . |
| 7 | It has a beautiful 13th-century church and a fine manor house , Sulgrave , also mentioned in the Domesday Book and once the home of George Washington 's ancestors . |
| 8 | Newstead Abbey was once the home of Lord Byron and now contains a museum dedicated to the poet . |
| 9 | It was once the home of Robert Burns and has a museum in his name . |
| 10 | This forty-five room brownstone once the home of J.P . |
| 11 | A lovely villa , set in beautiful gardens amidst vineyards it was once the home of the della Robbias , the family of renaissance artists , famous for their glazed ‘ terracotta ’ work , and whose masterpieces are to be admired all over Florence 's churches and galleries — most notably the lovely cherubs which grace the foundling hospital in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata . |
| 12 | Charming lounge bar in a house once the home of Christopher North . |
| 13 | Anjou was once the home of the Plantagenets and today the tomb of Henri II of England , Eleanore of Acquitaine and Richard the Lion Hart can be seen in the magnificent abbey of Fontevraud near the town . |
| 14 | The CNAA was not aware that the new premises were on part of the site of what was once the Home and Colonial Infant School Society , which from 1836 had been one of the country 's first teacher training organizations , and had occupied 334–54 Gray 's Inn Road in 1839 . |
| 15 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
| 16 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |