Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' house " in BNC.
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1 | The 16th had close ties with the Boys ' Brigade , with flags presented by the Trades ' House of Glasgow . |
2 | The business did grow after the arrival of Michael Curlewis in 1982 when billings were still below £300 000 ; according to the accounts filed at Companies ' House , in 1985 Boyden , with only three consultants , achieved a turnover of £490258 . |
3 | As part of an international group , Korn/Ferry 's accounts have been filed at Companies ' House , which show an impressive rise in fee income during the present decade . |
4 | When David revealed to the Melody Maker that he was gay , Mick Ronson remembers his parents ' house being daubed with paint and his car being damaged — the reaction was not all good . |
5 | I understand she was found not all that far from her parents ' house ? |
6 | I met a lot of people at my parents ' house , including many people of real ability , and that I was always grateful for . |
7 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
8 | It was much more useful to spend Saturday morning in her parents ' house , in Park Lane , planning future articles . |
9 | He took a cab to Park Lane , and knocked on the door of her parents ' house . |
10 | After midnight , there would be a family get-together at my parents ' house ; I still wanted to take part in it , however far from home I was . |
11 | The journey had made her worse , and when she reached my parents ' house , she collapsed in pain on the settee , from where she was unable to get up . |
12 | Twenty-three year-old Allen Taylor is ‘ sick and tired ’ of the continuing attacks on his parents ' house and is appealing for help . |
13 | Now , after two years of living in the bus outside his parents ' house , lack of work in this country has prompted him to emigrate to Auckland , New Zealand , with Louise and son Sam , so his marvellous mobile home is now up for sale . |
14 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
15 | By the time I got back to my parents ' house my face was grey . |
16 | Young Sarah stayed on in her parents ' house behind the hill , only one of a number of poor people in that humble street . |
17 | They arrived at her parents ' house a little before midnight . |
18 | They returned to Joan 's parents ' house and about four o'clock in the morning decided on two steps . |
19 | It was a minute to midnight when Joan and John reached her parents ' house as the bells were beginning to ring out the old year . |
20 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
21 | Adam sat in his parents ' house , drinking tea . |
22 | It was midnight when he finally eased the Triumph to a stop in front of his parents ' house and swayed gently up the steps . |
23 | They then had it driven to Kent , where it was buried in a field behind Richens ' parents ' house in the village of Ightham . |
24 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
25 | If he mentioned moving out of her parents ' house , she dissolved into tears . |
26 | From the age of five he spent hours every day riding moto cross bikes on disused land near his parents ' house . |
27 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
28 | Doing a lot of hitch-hiking , as I did from my parents ' house in Wales to London , I met many different people . |
29 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
30 | Friends were surprised at how often I would stay on their floors after an evening out , and I would alternate between trips to my parents ' house in Wales and visits to friends from pre-army days , who I would surprise by telephoning to say I was on leave from the regular army . |