Example sentences of "[art] house was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glorious garden belonging to a customer friend in Hampshire had an avenue of these leading to the dining room patio , and the effect from the house was no worse for not being puritanical . |
| 2 | The house was a terrifying tomb . |
| 3 | Despite the hilarious hostess , the house was a bit grim , not only in its décor . |
| 4 | ‘ Near the house was a barn like a castle , with a courtyard in the centre . |
| 5 | Smallfry said the house was a hostel for whores and niggers and criminals on the run from the police . |
| 6 | In the house was a picture of the original gallery . |
| 7 | The original owner of the house was a professor at the University . |
| 8 | The house was a neat Victorian villa in a row with lime trees outside ; Hoomey liked the road better than his own ; it was cosier , somehow , with the trees and the privet hedges and its back to the sea . |
| 9 | And there , bumping and jolting its roaring way up the track towards the house was a motor car . |
| 10 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 11 | The house was a completely original design — neither the interior nor the exterior were copies of any existing royal palace , building or other Lutyens commission . |
| 12 | Rumours abound ; it is said that Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here after his defeat in 1745 , and it is also suggested that the house was a centre of smuggling as it stands a mere hundred yards from the head of the Solway Firth . |
| 13 | Sara said that the exterior woodwork of the house was a disgrace and needed painting , and that the kitchen floor needed new vinyl , and that the hall carpet was awful . |
| 14 | Elsewhere the house was a snapshot of upper-class English life , decorated with formal family portraits , regimental pictures , as well as the plaques , photographs and certificates which were testimony of a lifetime spent in good works . |
| 15 | I came back — god , I 'll never forget it , the house was a pig hole . |
| 16 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |
| 17 | All around the house was a wide open piece of land ; and around that was a fence , two metres high , with no doors or openings , and too strong to pull down easily . |
| 18 | And then we had er our daughter and so the house was a bit packed cos her mum 's got a lot of kids |
| 19 | In the house was a great stillness . |
| 20 | The children stopped , as if the house was a sign that they should go no farther . |
| 21 | In front of the house was a typical Victorian garden which had been designed by Edward Kemp for the first Sir John : a few formal terraces , some bedding out , a tortuously clipped yew topiary and a small paved area with rose beds . |
| 22 | The house was a madness . |
| 23 | Across the back of the house was a kitchen , a bathroom and a big breakfast room with steps leading down to the back garden . |
| 24 | The house was a late Mughal haveli off Gulli Mr Shiv Prasad . |
| 25 | Outside , the house was a model of classical restraint . |
| 26 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 27 | Harris had mentioned that the owner of the house was a social worker . |
| 28 | The slope was covered with white and yellow wild flowers , and near to the house was a cluster of small trees . |
| 29 | As they rounded the edge of the building , he could see that behind the house was a vast garden . |
| 30 | For the house was a trust . |