Example sentences of "house was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was just the right size for us ; downstairs , an entrance hall , four rooms , a kitchen and a servants hall ; upstairs , six bedrooms and an attic . |
| 2 | The present Clanna Weir House was formerly the main card mill and one of the other mill buildings was later taken over as a saw mill , power coming from a water turbine powered by waters channelled from the ponds above the site . |
| 3 | He saw a house , the house , almost the house a child draws in its infant school , four windows , chimney , door , garden path , lazy-daisy looped flowers in rectangular parterres , only this house was also a crudely three-dimensional flimsy box , barely containing something very large and very much alive , covered with rusty pelt , so that every aperture bulged with glowing fur , was pushed outwards , cracking , and a claw showed here on a sill , and a ripple of muscle there . |
| 4 | Mrs. Burden who lived at number 70 , another two storey house was quite a character . |
| 5 | Far from being any support to her mother , Liza 's presence in the house was quite the reverse . |
| 6 | Visiting her in her London house was always a joy . |
| 7 | UNTIL 1963 , when it was sold by the Church , Dormington House was always the rectory . |
| 8 | So he was and it had it 's Tormore House was really a lovely place . |
| 9 | If Mrs Curdle 's abode was the smallest on Thrush Green , then the Youngs ' house was certainly the largest and one of the oldest . |
| 10 | Though the country house was still a semi-fortified chateau , the French town house , the hôtel , was evolving a specific late Medieval pattern suited to its smaller site . |
| 11 | The house was about a third full and they were respectful if not ecstatic in their reaction . |
| 12 | This 17th-century house was once a working mill , powered by two enormous water-wheels — one wheel alone was twenty-four feet high . |
| 13 | As shopkeepers , it seems apt that Sue and Reg Bass 's house was once a village shop . |
| 14 | Bede House was once a hospital during the war , before the school was built . |
| 15 | This house was once an inn — ‘ The Jolly Dragoon ’ . |
| 16 | Nine miles away , Audley End House was once the Royal residence of Charles II and has a fine park landscaped by Capability Brown . |
| 17 | But the Tates ' house was only a couple of hundred yards away . |
| 18 | The house was only a few minutes ' drive away from the river . |
| 19 | The animal house was actually a section of the basement , reached by a wide staircase at the end of the concourse . |