Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] at the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 2 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 3 | I later found out that the school had enquired at the house after the girl 's continued absence and been given some plausible excuse for it by the father . |
| 4 | ‘ In the meantime , my dad had arrived at the house and spotted two men hanging around the ditched vehicle . |
| 5 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |