Example sentences of "[noun sg] house [vb past] be " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The auction house had been assured by their legal advisors that the current owners of the work had legal entitlement . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Within a week , we received a letter back from the minister informing us that Bracken House had been listed grade II* . |
5 | Their town house had been sold , lingeringly , with rearguard modernizing actions to keep up its price . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |