Example sentences of "a large house " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the entrance to the village and immediately on the right-hand side was a large house with a high wall round it . |
| 2 | She had found a retired garda sergeant and his wife , whose family had grown and scattered , leaving them with a large house and room to spare . |
| 3 | A few paces ahead , on my left , was a five-barred gate — access to a paddock which ran along the back walls of some cottages , ending in the grounds of a large house . |
| 4 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 5 | Very agreeable private family in a large house just outside the village . |
| 6 | It was not even a large house , only tall , with long flights of steep stairs , and had two rooms on each of the four floors . |
| 7 | Yet one may imagine that the dinner-party takes place in a large house , and that in another room the ladies are engaged in their own conversations . |
| 8 | The startled midwife was blindfolded and placed on the back of one of the horses and taken through the stormy night to a large house . |
| 9 | The writer professed to be church-going , happily married , to have a large house and be infatuated with young children . |
| 10 | Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 11 | The Rector , who could not afford to keep up the grounds , had no need of such a large house himself , and Charlotte decided to rent it . |
| 12 | They spent £100 on recording the two songs at the tiny Billiard Room studio , which is housed in a garage connected to a large house in a residential part of Leeds . |
| 13 | In the spring of 1940 John Avison and I rounded up a group of like-minded radio people with the object of renting a large house as far away as possible from downtown Vancouver . |
| 14 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 15 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 16 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 17 | Their prison was some stables at the rear of a large house , which incidentally , they had to secure themselves . |
| 18 | Now I was a man of property , the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford , with investments so extensive I had no detailed idea of their scope and access to current and deposit accounts totalling well into six figures . |
| 19 | He was again conscious of where he was : in the room of his own apartment , on the third floor of a large house , he was sitting on this Sunday afternoon , an ageing man , old not in years , but in their disappointments . |
| 20 | If you are younger , perhaps living alone after the death of an elderly parent , and you are in the same situation of having a large house or flat that is too much of a financial burden for you , then you must either sell or take in lodgers . |
| 21 | Inge stayed with the Robins family in Falmouth in a large house and had the benefits of a private tutor but she was homesick for Vienna . |
| 22 | The hostel was a large house in Highgate which the Schlesingers bought with money left by a relative . |
| 23 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 24 | This was a large house built in 1786 for a merchant of the East India Company and had been the home of Sir Noel Paton , a famous Scottish artist . |
| 25 | Ahead towered Robinsgrove — such a large house for one unhappy man . |
| 26 | Angel had had a magical childhood , bucking the system at the smart Buenos Aires boys ' school of Champagnat and living during the term time in a large house in the Avenidad del Libertador . |
| 27 | He married her under his false name in Bolas Magna church in April 1790 and he built a large house there for them both . |
| 28 | Stukeley first took up residence in St. Peter 's Rectory and later in a large house at the top of Barn Hill . |
| 29 | The weather was fine and they were enjoying their walk when they came across the neglected remains of a large house which they had often seen in the distance from the pump-house . |
| 30 | They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course . |