Example sentences of "house which [vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 2 | On 16 September Sotheby 's offered the contents of Groombridge Place , Kent , a beautiful small Jacobean brick house which had been featured in the Peter Greenaway film ‘ The Draughtsman 's Contract ’ . |
| 3 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 4 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 5 | I recently obtained permission to search the grounds of a medieval house which had been built upon the site of a wall- enclosed 14th century residence . |
| 6 | William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect . |
| 7 | I remember that year : Elio Vittorini was living in a house which had been reduced to two walls . ) |