Example sentences of "house was [prep] the " 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 | The Serjeants ' Inn Coffee House was opposite the Insolvent Debtors ' Court , off Fleet Street , and ceased business in 1838 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their house was on the main road coming uphill out of the town centre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I saw that my house was on the worst side of the island . |
| 10 | Besides , he had enough to do at home , now the house was on the market at last . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But her original house was on the water |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I did n't know myself where the house was until the week before last . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Columbus 's House was in the part of Funchal near the cathedral and belonged to Jean d'Esmanault ( João Esmeraldo ) a Flemish merchant . |
| 20 | I 'm dealing with two estates where no will has been made and the house was in the name of husband alone who died without a will and the net result is that on on law on intestacy neither of the those surviving widows is of right entitled to the house and in both cases there are children and as you can imagine there is a certain amount of anguish about it . |
| 21 | Everyone from the house was in the room , sitting in a spacious balcony seat high above the stage . |
| 22 | As this was rather uncomfortable , a year later we were allocated a council house , this house was in where our old house had been and my nana 's house was in the neighbouring village of , so luckily in all our moves my brother and I never had to move schools . |
| 23 | Lavender Lily Lily was a flower girl , Her house was in the air , Sweet lavender she picked gladly Without a single care . |