Example sentences of "came to [art] house " in BNC.

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1 According to Boswell , ‘ Between twelve and one we set out , and travelled eleven miles , through a wild country , till we came to a house in Glenmorison [ the modern spelling adds a ‘ t ’ — Glenmoriston : Johnson calls it Glenmollison ] called Anoch , kept by a McQueen . ’
2 On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow .
3 Our boy friends seldom came to the house .
4 He was even smaller in height than some of the women who came to the house .
5 He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room .
6 The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time .
7 Whenever she came to the house with Peg she would look about with solemn curiosity , and her blue eyes dominated her wan little face .
8 ‘ I 'm sorry about what happened when you came to the house , ’ she said .
9 Then a young man named Paul Arkwright came to the house with his mentor , and played the piano , and Dinah sang .
10 Then we stood down when Mum and Dad came to the house .
11 They came to the house on horseback , by car , by bicycle , by farm-cart ; but most of them followed the hearse on foot ; close friends filled the four cabs .
12 Diana rarely came to the house more than twice a year .
13 She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’
14 They came to the house two or three times , but … but that was last week .
15 I always used to like him , she remembered ; I was glad when he came to the house .
16 When Beth first came to the house , the rear garden was derelict .
17 On Oliver 's ninth birthday , Mr Bumble the beadle came to the house to see Mrs Mann .
18 They came to the house to do that .
19 ‘ For years before he married Elizabeth I do n't think anyone came to the house except for the old men on Sunday after chapel .
20 Master Vechey was here when Brother Athelstan and I came to the house for the first time .
21 That evening a jeep , that jeep , came to the house .
22 Daffodils were coming up in the garden but it would be dark when his guests came to the house to eat their meal .
23 I remember that when she came to the House she was , like her leader , a passionate supporter of CND .
24 I refer to Burnley , whose council I led before I came to the House .
25 Only yesterday a delegation from the Manufacturing Science Finance Union , MSF , came to the House to express its concern about big organisations , such as GEC , which have significant defence contracts .
26 I came to the House 12 years ago .
27 My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone .
28 As he and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West know , my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , in his personal capacity as Law Officer of the Crown and not as a Minister , came to the House to inform it how he intended to proceed .
29 A detective came to the house and took some of his clothes … it 's like a nightmare ! ’
30 Paramedics came to the house in Thompson Street , Darlington , and struggled to revive her but it was too late .
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