Example sentences of "at a house " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 2 | WASHINGTON — Federal agents seized nine tons of cocaine at a house near the Mexican border and six tons from a ship off the Yucatan peninsula yesterday , writes Marc Champion . |
| 3 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 4 | I have heard of various instances of a butler being displayed as a kind of performing monkey at a house party . |
| 5 | On 13 September , at a house taken for the College near the Elephant & Castle tavern , close to St Pancras Church ( which became Old St Pancras Church when St Pancras New Church was built by the Inwood brothers in 1819–1822 ) the proposal from Messrs Kirkman and Hendy was approved . |
| 6 | When we look at a house in the distance and we see a small house — say half an inch high — surrounded by trees two inches high , we are not fooled into perceiving them as small . |
| 7 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 8 | Because of the extensive location work , Dustin , who disliked being away from his family for any length of time , insisted on Anne and Karina joining him at a house he had rented in Billings , Montana . |
| 9 | Det Sgt Window , 39 , who is married with two children , was attacked when he and two colleagues called at a house in Tottenham , north London . |
| 10 | Suzy Lamplugh vanished in 1986 after going to meet a Mr Kipper at a house in Fulham , West London . |
| 11 | ESTATE agent Suzy Lamplugh has not been seen since she left her office on July 28 , 1986 , to keep an appointment with the mysterious Mr Kipper at a house . |
| 12 | They fled after calling at a house where the vehicle was blocking a narrow country lane . |
| 13 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 14 | The alleged incident happened at a house in Railway Street , on Saturday evening , two hours before the two were arrested . |
| 15 | One Irishman was arrested in Cheshunt , Herts , and two Irishmen held at a house in Hanwell , West London , early on Wednesday . |
| 16 | A woman posing as a social worker walked off with her and it was 15 days before Alex was found safe at a house in Burford , Oxon . |
| 17 | At a house in Knightsbridge . |
| 18 | Sgt Forth died of his injuries after being called to a disturbance at a house in Gateshead , 12 days ago . |
| 19 | The incident happened at about 3.30pm on Friday , when the pair called at a house in Main Road , Danbury , saying they had come to check the meter . |
| 20 | The 36-year-old victim of a stabbing incident had suffered multiple wounds to his back and stomach at a house in Bailey Bridge Road , Braintree , said Inspector Roy Dennis , head of Braintree and Witham CID . |
| 21 | Weekends were spent in the country , at Althorp with her father , at her sister Jane 's cottage on the estate or at a house party organized by one of her growing circle of friends . |
| 22 | Out in the country again , they walked down several small roads until finally they stopped at a house surrounded by a high wall . |
| 23 | ‘ I sometimes go and stay at a house where a girl was killed . |
| 24 | In a simultaneous raid at a house in Cranham , Essex , they found more than A MILLION capsules waiting to be filled with the chemically-produced drug . |
| 25 | A HUSBAND and wife have been remanded in custody in connection with the discovery of half a ton of fertiliser suitable for making explosives at a house in West Belfast a week ago . |
| 26 | The charge is understood to be connected to the discovery of ten bags of fertiliser at a house in the west of the city last weekend . |
| 27 | Details of the summer bonanza meeting , on a par with most of the top venues in the United Kingdom , were outlined at a House of Sport Press Conference today where it was revealed that for the first time the meeting will be held on a Saturday night ( 6pm start ) . |
| 28 | On Aug. 17 police shot dead three suspected ETA activists , during a four-hour gun battle at a house in San Sebastián in which two Civil Guards were seriously wounded . |
| 29 | Not that he made the claim himself Mr Kilroy-Silk would readily acknowledge that he learned the egg trick from Mike Molloy , now editor of the Sunday Mirror , at a house party . |
| 30 | Bunny had got himself invited to a party down in Fulham at a house rented by four air hostesses who worked for Cathay Pacific . |