Example sentences of "[noun] house [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restaurant was packed , Saturday evenings always fully booked at The Magpie , the best eating house in the small commuter town twenty-one miles north of London . |
| 2 | Did you see The Tea House of the August Moon ? ’ |
| 3 | Silvex Modes is on the top floor of a decaying terrace house opposite the cafe . |
| 4 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 5 | He was speaking in private in the chapter house of the abbey of St Paul's-without-the-walls . |
| 6 | So Pete and Diane left the rail and stepped out of the boat house into the mild spring air to wait for him . |
| 7 | On Monday morning Doone had turned up at Shellerton House with the plank . |
| 8 | Alternatively the story of how the Robartes family came to have the money to build Lanhydrock House in the Fowey valley could be considered a tale of blatant exploitation , outrageous usury and greed . |
| 9 | FROM 1907 to 1934 Sir Henry Newbolt , our great patriotic , nautical and sometimes contemplative poet , lived here in this lovely manor house on the village street of Netherhampton , backed by watermeadows and sheltered by the great chalk downs . |
| 10 | The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the spring of 1520 Benjamin Daunbey and I were the proud occupants of a large manor house on the outskirts of Ipswich . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Eight miles away at Helmsley is Nunnington Hall , a 17th-century manor house with the Carlisle Collection of twenty-two miniature rooms — each room is one-eighth life size . |
| 15 | A dignified red-bricked manor house of the late 17th century , with a collection of paintings , furniture and armour . |
| 16 | This must be the former manor house of the settlement , which was downgraded in the eighteenth century and replaced by a larger house with its own gardens and park . |
| 17 | The radical change from the romantic picturesqueness of the Elizabethan manor house to the measured symmetry of South Luffenham Hall must have upset many of the more traditional locals , for this house would have looked daringly modern when it was built . |
| 18 | The families represent across-section of cultures , religions , classes , incomes , working parents , occupations and locations , from the wealthy manor house to the high-rise tower block , the inner-city to the isolated farm . |
| 19 | A woman who left her manor house to the public in her will has had her dying wish denied . |
| 20 | Beautiful , medieval , moated manor house in the heart of the Kentish Weald . |
| 21 | Offering the meagre purse of local gossip , news from Buttermere , Nicholson spoke about Mr Skelton 's plans for building a large stone manor house in the area ; dwelt longingly on the prospect of Miss Skelton and said something about the wrestling which included a mention of Mary of Buttermere and a young man from the north of the county walking thirty or forty miles just to see her and make his feelings known to her . |
| 22 | The trustees of a charity which was left a manor house in the will of a wealthy widow have defended their decision to sell it . |
| 23 | Triumphant in this latest development in his career has bought a manor house in the area . |
| 24 | But the bloody vendetta will reach far beyond Sicily ; to a manor house in the English countryside , and to the gangster-run Chicago of the 1920's . |
| 25 | This was not until mid-September , and Nigel , I and two of his colleagues foregathered in the turbine house for the big switch-on . |
| 26 | The proposals , confirmed as viable by the newly privatised Merseyside and North West Electricity Board , involve diverting some of the water from two streams at the head of the Falls and piping it underground to a small stone and slate turbine house at the bottom of the valley . |
| 27 | Nigel and I in the turbine house after the big switch on |
| 28 | The Oxfordshire Way , which stretches 30 miles through the county , now goes through the centre of the new club house for the Oxfordshire Golf club . |
| 29 | Towards the end of their stay in London the Mozarts visited the British Museum ( in its original home in Montagu House on the site of the present building — ( PLATE II ) ) . |
| 30 | Boldly ignoring the Shavian prescription , Nancy Meckler 's highly original Shared Experience production of Heartbreak House at the Riverside Studios has the quality of a fragmented dream , only occasionally marred by a sock-it-to-em over-emphasis . |