Example sentences of "[adv] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the house was still empty , and they were staking it out . |
| 2 | ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’ |
| 3 | Slowly the house filled up . |
| 4 | Eventually the houses started , and the street lamps , shining yellow on the wet pavements . |
| 5 | Eventually the house sensed a excitement of spring in the air , the earth was coming alive again with awakening green shoots peeping through , searching for the warm rays of sunshine . |
| 6 | Once it became clear that there was no possibility of raising the funds for the National Trust or English Heritage to take on the house , SAVE began to look at other options . |
| 7 | The acquisition and painstaking restoration of Plas Teg , an exceptionally beautiful early seventeenth-century house in Clwyd , was a brave step for the private individual who took on the house with the help of grants . |
| 8 | The two most prolonged battles of this kind , at Mavisbank near Edinburgh and Pell Wall in Shropshire , are cases where the owners have been deaf to every offer to take on the house and restore it . |
| 9 | He stopped the film , and switched on the house lights . |
| 10 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 11 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 12 | It aimed to pull down the houses and buildings on the site , except for the Board of Control , and to ‘ build a wall in a line with the terrace of the Houses of Parliament , reclaiming about two acres from the River , and on this valuable site to erect Buildings , Streets and Terraces of the first class … |
| 13 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 14 | Their importance to the level of employment at the port was recognised by the journeymen carpenters who in 1792 let it be known that if the slave trade were abolished they would riot and pull down the houses of leading abolitionists . |
| 15 | My experience on Old Father Thames is limited to the Tattershall Castle just down the Houses of Parliament . |
| 16 | the pictures up and down the house ; |
| 17 | The chain for ringing the bell runs down the house , through the first floor landing , where it can be pulled if desired , to the hall below . |
| 18 | He is now trying to pull down the house about the ears of Winchester 's Tories . |
| 19 | This refusal to fit in with the system continued when he returned to London , having jumped ship after a series of incidents — chopping down the house of someone 's aunt ; being technical supervisor on a failed bank robbery — had made him somewhat too conspicuous to the New Zealand authorities . |
| 20 | In one of their battles they chased each other ten times up and down the house , Beatrice armed with a long straw broom and Modigliani with a pot . |
| 21 | Michael Heseltine , The Man Who Brought Down Mrs Thatcher , and last week the man who brought down the house in a dazzling Commons performance . |
| 22 | They confirmed it was 32 per cent bigger all the way around than the plans allowed for — and now councillors have ordered the Foys to pull down the house , claiming it was built too big deliberately . |
| 23 | Now that really might bring down the House of Windsor . |
| 24 | Then come two much appreciated encores , of which the second , Wien , du Stadt meiner Träume , brings down the house — and quite right too . |
| 25 | On the flickering screen the wicked wolf tried his best to blow down the house of the three little pigs . |
| 26 | She could not bring herself to fall down the house stairs . |
| 27 | Gore then devised a plan to burn down the house , destroying any forensic evidence he might have left behind . |
| 28 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 29 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 30 | perhaps the house was full of caged birds owned by the lady with the rings . |