Example sentences of "house [was/were] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was close-carpeted in turquoise , but there was some antique furniture , obviously passed down through the family . |
| 2 | The meeting at the Castle Street house was decisive in the lives of both Poole and Coleridge , and was also , though by accident , instantly notorious in the little world of Stowey . |
| 3 | A description of the new house was lavish in its praise — ‘ There is nothing like it in the colony . |
| 4 | The little house was empty in the mornings , of course . |
| 5 | The issuing house was active in turning small- and medium-sized firms into public companies . |