Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 2 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |
| 3 | He searched for this wonderful house , but could not find it , and was returning home disappointed when he realized that the house was his own house , and that the gold was merely the reflection of the sun . |
| 4 | Then I realized that the house did not belong to a human , but to the horse who had brought me here . |
| 5 | As he came nearer , he realized that the house was familiar and he felt faint with terror . |
| 6 | As Julia began to work the room , she realised that the house had been designed and built for just this sort of occasion : it was planned for servants to run . |
| 7 | SAVE 's solicitors argued that the House of Lords judgment ‘ extends to the case where the demolition , although not total , is sufficiently substantial to alter or remove the identity of the building ’ . |
| 8 | Blom-Cooper and Drewry concluded that there was a role for the House of Lords and argued that the House of Lords was neither unfitted to retain its present judicial role nor prohibitively expensive to use . |
| 9 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 10 | Even here , amid the soft , cooling sea breezes , she noticed that the house appeared to be centrally air-conditioned . |
| 11 | It was because you belched and the house did n't like you . |
| 12 | Acting Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , who is leading the murder investigation , confirmed that the house had been searched . |
| 13 | Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ . |
| 14 | It followed that the House had to consider afresh the principles upon which the court ought to exercise its discretion whether to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown . |
| 15 | He then ordered that the house be destroyed . |
| 16 | Sandy , a visitor , told us : " It brought tears to my eyes when I heard that the house would be closed for renovation . |
| 17 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 18 | Leith noted his excitement , but since over-enthusiasm was all part and parcel of his personality , and seldom meant that the house was on fire , she failed to match his enthusiasm . |
| 19 | In 1935 a page by David Garnett in the New Statesman first introduced me to her work , and I saw that A House and Its Head was a book likely to give me quite peculiar pleasure . |
| 20 | Carefully , he crawled the breadth of the building and , to his relief , he saw that the house beneath him was one of a row . |
| 21 | She had never helped with any of the bills , so he felt that the house was his alone . |
| 22 | And in addition to that , as governments knew that the House of Commons would not be agreeable , ah , the ah , polite phrase is ‘ had not been educated up to ’ , ah , the acceptance of a transfer of sovereignty of the islands , an additional ingredient was thrown in . |
| 23 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 24 | B then would not find his claim inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies if his advisers thought that the House of Lords would not and/or that the Court of Appeal would have given judgment on the unresolved arguments . |
| 25 | Over the two hundred years that they owned the house their fortunes dwindled until the house was sold to the Hutchings family in 1736 . |
| 26 | I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for forty years . |
| 27 | The dog usually knew if the house was watched . |
| 28 | A PENSIONER , Daniel Kenny , 71 , died when a house at Kirkports , North Berwick , was engulfed by fire early yesterday . |
| 29 | Mistakes can be costly and the author recalls one scheme where the beneficiary of a right of way waited until a house purchaser was due to move in before exercising his rights , thus deliberately causing the maximum disruption to the developer . |
| 30 | Harold explained that the house was empty , and at that moment a second fire engine arrived from Nidden , and started work at the side of the building where the flames seemed thickest . |