Example sentences of "house which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also these towns have large areas of old nineteenth century houses which had been built cheaply to house the workers near the mills and mines . |
| 2 | A convalescent home was needed , so I got permission to use two houses which had been the homes of senior staff of the Bombay Burma Trading Company . |
| 3 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 4 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 5 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 6 | Over at the west end of Hury there was a house which had been a pub called the Hare and Hounds , occupied by a family who were rather special to me . |
| 7 | In October 1795 they settled together at Racedown Lodge , Dorset , a house which had been offered them rent-free by a Bristol family , the Pinneys . |
| 8 | On 16 September Sotheby 's offered the contents of Groombridge Place , Kent , a beautiful small Jacobean brick house which had been featured in the Peter Greenaway film ‘ The Draughtsman 's Contract ’ . |
| 9 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 10 | I remember that year : Elio Vittorini was living in a house which had been reduced to two walls . ) |
| 11 | I recently obtained permission to search the grounds of a medieval house which had been built upon the site of a wall- enclosed 14th century residence . |
| 12 | William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect . |
| 13 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |