Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a small house " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stopped outside a small house , single-storeyed , one window beneath its dripping , soggy thatch roof , and a battered ale-stake jutting out from beneath the eaves . |
| 2 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 3 | His other nanny lived in a small house on Park Road , close to St Luke 's Hospital and not far from the park where Frankie sometimes played . |
| 4 | He lived in a small house there with his brothers and sisters , all Israeli citizens who spoke Hebrew and lived and worked in Israel . |
| 5 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 6 | Ackroyd enjoyed a quiet bachelor life and lived in a small house by the crossing . |
| 7 | Her Aunt Elizabeth lived in a small house in the depths of the country near Hereford , and as she her self had never in her life been outside of Birmingham , the journey was like visiting a foreign country . |