Example sentences of "[noun sg] house [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the extreme eastern boundary of the parish , however , where the church and vicarage were rather oddly placed , a number of small terrace houses had been bought up by speculative builders , gutted , modernised , and sold at high prices to people who wanted small houses that were almost in town but could not afford the more fashionable districts of Islington , St John 's Wood or Hampstead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The auction house had been assured by their legal advisors that the current owners of the work had legal entitlement . |
| 4 | 5–9- " There was laid on the table a minute of the Deacons ' Court of date from which it appeared that the subject of the conversion of the Schoolhouse into dwelling houses had been under consideration , and that the Court had agreed to submit the proposal to the congregation for its opinion . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Within a week , we received a letter back from the minister informing us that Bracken House had been listed grade II* . |
| 7 | They enjoyed their city as the eighteenth-century Londoners must have done , before the delightful town houses had been raped and turned into offices . |
| 8 | Their town house had been sold , lingeringly , with rearguard modernizing actions to keep up its price . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Board of Trade and its clearing house had been invited to co-operate on the $15m project on five different occasions over the past year , and had refused . |
| 11 | The last monthly housing report to be issued before the abolition of the corporation in November 1968 showed that only four corporation houses had been built . |
| 12 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 13 | 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 . |