Sentence examples for flats from inspiring English sources

Her fate was all the more harrowing because the IRA murder squad that came to kill her dragged her away from her screaming, crying children in a rundown flats complex in 1972, the bloodiest year of the conflict.

In one block managed by Wetherell almost half of the 16 flats are occupied by students.

She had lived in one of these flats and her murder was the third to occur in this little stretch in the space of seven months.

But 20 years ago, you couldn't move for thrillers in provincial theatres: always set in country houses or smart London flats, always starring an actor off the TV in neckerchief and fawn slacks (Gerald Harper or Jack Hedley or Bill Simpson), always featuring a drinks trolley, an attractive fiance, a best friend and a stalwart detective who appears after the interval to investigate the crime.

We might fix it up and refurbish it, make it into self-contained studio flats for people who have a right to be there".

"If you live in a slum in Nairobi, seeing development money pouring into a luxury block of flats is an insult".

A glossy brochure for Garden City in Nairobi, which includes 400-plus flats and townhouses, boasts: "From the aquamarine water of the heated swimming pool to the ultra-modern fitted kitchen, solid bamboo flooring and glass balcony balustrades, quality is the defining characteristic of the Garden City Village".

In the past few months she, along with a group of children from her school, have taught her village about recycling, organised a weekly rubbish collection, cleaned up the nearby salt flats and helped to get the first toilets installed.

"Lots of people who bought oversupplied new-build flats in many parts of the north and Midlands of England between 1998 and 2004 will have found this out the hard way".

Still, if all goes to plan, Richard Brown will behind the controls of Jet Reaction later this year at the Bonneville salt flats in Utah, US, when he tries to break the two-wheeled land speed record.

"Across the road from the station is a block of flats, and every balcony on this block of flats was covered with a huge Simon Hughes banner – with a tiny little Lib Dem logo in the corner.