Example sentences of "her house was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her house was a meeting-place for her daughter and their husbands , and conversation and gossip there formed reputation and opinion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her house was the best furnished and kept spic and span . |