Example sentences of "[pos pn] house was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They just assumed my house was the same as the rest around here — big and worth a lot of money . |
| 2 | Their house was the tallest on Thrush Green , and when we first meet the good doctor , in the book of that name , he is an elderly man contemplating retirement . |
| 3 | Her house was a meeting-place for her daughter and their husbands , and conversation and gossip there formed reputation and opinion . |
| 4 | Their father died when George was three years old , and the strongest influence on him , until she died when he was thirty-four , was his mother Magdalene , the patroness of John Donne , who wrote a well-known poem to her : Donne , in preaching her funeral sermon , described how , ‘ as her house was a court in the conversation of the best and an almshouse in feeding the poore , so it was also a hospital in ministering relief to the sick . |
| 5 | Her house was a new one , built of bright reconstituted stone , and her sitting-room was full of blue Dralon armchairs , and occasional tables , each bearing a single china ornament , mostly whimsical animals . |
| 6 | Yes , I I 'd like to go back to that very traditional Hogmanay , I mean , I think that Hogmanay is very important , not the the Hogmanay that we have now where everybody gathers round a T V but it was very much erm like a I always think Hogmanay at my granny 's , as do er , most of the people in in th the mining area , actually her house was a focus . |
| 7 | Her house was the best furnished and kept spic and span . |
| 8 | The site where Hugh Arbuthnot chose to build his house was a rise in the ground , overlooking the river . |
| 9 | The purchase of his house was a purchase on security . |
| 10 | His house was a primitive version of a modern youth club . |
| 11 | His house was a grim , grey dwelling , appropriately masked in creeper . |
| 12 | His house was a three-storeyed affair . |
| 13 | The drink had something to do with it , no doubt , but lack of a decent woman in his house was the real cause of the trouble . |
| 14 | A lay preacher , his house was the meeting-place of a gathered church by 1649 . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a measure of the level of the people with which he was dealing , in that at a time when he thought he might be a witness in another case , he was assaulted rendering him unconscious and his house was the subject of an arson attack . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It is a measure of the level of the people with which he was dealing in that , at a time when he thought he might be a witness in another case , he was assaulted , rendering him unconscious , and his house was the subject of an arson attack . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , we had a regular revolutionary den , Wilson , I assure you , our house was a hotbed of intrigue and your husband in the thick of it . ’ |
| 18 | Our house was a mingling of religions : Hannah , the ayah , was a Thomist Catholic ; the table servants were Mohammedan ; Fa 's personal bearer , Jetta , was a Buddhist from Sikkim . |
| 19 | About twenty metres in front of our house was a great tree . |