Example sentences of "house [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen 's worry as to how the Dolls ' House opened was a perfectly reasonable one . |
| 2 | After Luke and then Maggie had left for London there were still enough people to dull the heartache and emptiness but now that all the girls had gone it was as if the whole house had been cleaned . |
| 3 | Came home from a week 's camp with local youngsters to find that the whole house had been ransacked , windows smashed , kids toys broken , the water boiler ripped out and everything wet . |
| 4 | He decided to live in Dorset and chose this site ( where an earlier house had been ) , because it looked for all the world as though , when the house was built , it could sail straight out to sea . |
| 5 | The south-facing classical façade was built on in about 1708 , just after the house had been bought by an affluent salter from Bradford on Avon called William Chandler . |
| 6 | Whereas architectural changes in the small country house had been slowly transitional in the last four hundred years , so that you hardly noticed the slipping of one style into another over , say , a period of fifty years , now the changes were radical and sometimes startling . |
| 7 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 8 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 9 | Probably the whole house had been cosy and well-run when these ladies had been in their prime . |
| 10 | We even managed to acquire a small grant towards the costs , as the house had been declared uninhabitable and was zero-rated ( in the pre-Poll Tax era ) . |
| 11 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 12 | Records still give no indications of use other than corn milling , but by the 1690s a fulling mill and dye house had been added , possibly much earlier . |
| 13 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 14 | The headmaster paused , reminding himself of his conclusion that the privilege of educating the sons of the royal house had been conferred on this school because it was uniquely endowed with a philosophy which informed all its actions and made it equal to the task . |
| 15 | But though the contents still belonged to the family trustees , the house had been sold to British Coal . |
| 16 | To ensure this happened , permission for phase II of the development , a further twenty-eight flats , was not to be given until the house had been restored . |
| 17 | This great neoclassical house had been reprieved from imminent demolition in 1972 by ministers and taken into guardianship two years later . |
| 18 | Within a week , we received a letter back from the minister informing us that Bracken House had been listed grade II* . |
| 19 | The same room in one house had been described by one agent as 26ft 6in long and 14ft wide ( 8 x 4.2m ) , and by another agent as 19ft 3in long and 15ft 4in ( 5.8 x 4.6m ) wide . |
| 20 | The house had been built by a mill owner who had made a comfortable fortune at the woollen mill which straddled the river Pleshey a mile or two west of Lulling . |
| 21 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 22 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 23 | The little tin house had been built for the friend 's father-in-law who had been the captain of the steamer based on inland Loch Awe . |
| 24 | The next house had been occupied by the Dear Family for several generations . |
| 25 | This house had been lived in by Lord Byron at one time . |
| 26 | I wish we at Homegreen House had been visited by a member of the council to explain what could happen if permission for a supermarket to be built is approved . |
| 27 | Today they were going to replaster the house : not just the floor , which they did regularly when it became cracked and dusty , or on special occasions , such as when the house had been polluted by childbirth or death . |
| 28 | Half the wall of the next house had been blown out , and he could see into the room beyond . |
| 29 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 30 | Since before dawn the White House had been deluged with calls for information , and once again the Press Spokesman was at his wits ' end . |