Example sentences of "house was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 2 | The house was at the bottom of a valley near the reservoir , surrounded by rolling hills . |
| 3 | Jotan 's house was at the end of a street which curved to follow the line of the city wall . |
| 4 | Ulrich Barker 's house was along a still band of water broken at the edges by crowding mangroves . |
| 5 | The Serjeants ' Inn Coffee House was opposite the Insolvent Debtors ' Court , off Fleet Street , and ceased business in 1838 . |
| 6 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 7 | Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit . |
| 8 | Their house was on the main road coming uphill out of the town centre . |
| 9 | From the photograph of the crash we had seen that the demolished house was on the corner of a small lane , and although the house had been rebuilt , when we arrived at the place the position was easily identified . |
| 10 | I saw that my house was on the worst side of the island . |
| 11 | Besides , he had enough to do at home , now the house was on the market at last . |
| 12 | The Stavanger house was on the south side of the square , nearest the river , and an alleyway beside the house probably led down to the docks . |
| 13 | The doctor 's house was on the main square of Chiguana , with three steps up to his door : ‘ to deter the crippled and the halt ’ , he told me , genially . |
| 14 | But her original house was on the water |
| 15 | Normally they did n't like to sanction a digs so far away from the city and the university buildings , but Mrs Hegarty had been quick to explain how near her house was to the railway station , how short was the train journey into town , how good the bracing sea air . |
| 16 | As the site of Montagu House was within the area of the block plan design , the article asserted that neither the Duke nor Burn would be disinterested assessors . |
| 17 | I did n't know myself where the house was until the week before last . |
| 18 | Its Chapter House was like a Board Room , where the abbots presided like chairmen of the Board , with the profit motive high on the agenda . |
| 19 | Furnishing the house was like a game of hunt the thimble , for the days of the fine shops in Abu Dhabi 's Hamdan Street or in Dubai were yet to come . |
| 20 | The house was like a madhouse . |
| 21 | In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind . |
| 22 | The site chosen for the house was in a wooded grove , sheltered from northerly gales and half a mile from the sea . |
| 23 | Ian Drummond , prosecuting for the RSPCA , told the court the house was in a horrendous state . |
| 24 | And you said yourself that the house was in a terrible condition . ’ |
| 25 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
| 26 | The house was in a terrace backed by garages . |
| 27 | There was no sign of grief for his daughter , but then , the house was in a state of permanent mourning . |
| 28 | However , the House was in no mood to agree to anything which could involve massive expenditure on public offices . |
| 29 | As soon as the dew had been burned off the grass , the whole house was in the hayfield , shaking out the heavy tangled lumps of grass the tedder had missed with the fork , raking what was light in from the edges . |
| 30 | Columbus 's House was in the part of Funchal near the cathedral and belonged to Jean d'Esmanault ( João Esmeraldo ) a Flemish merchant . |