Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun sg] houses " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 2 | The last I heard , she was working with one of the fleshwear houses , designing facial alterations . |
| 3 | ONE OF THE TREASURE HOUSES OF ENGLAND |
| 4 | In the evening we went to eat in one of the eating houses near the station . |
| 5 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |
| 6 | The leading peasant made us welcome in one of the peasant houses , where the same sort of ritual took place — long speeches , Chairman Mao , Chairman Hua , jin and mu , but with homely humour thrown in now and then . |
| 7 | The village post office is in one of the estate houses designed by John Birch in Queen Anne style , and has a George IV post box incorporated in the left-hand window . |