Sentence examples for house finished from inspiring English sources

"Bang, bang, bang: I could hardly get a house finished before it was sold".

That house, finished in 1883, stood alone, not surprisingly; Cook owned the whole block.

It was attached to a Queen Anne-style brick house finished three years earlier.

"I can't get my own house finished," he said with a laugh.

The exterior of the house, finished in spring 2012, offers little hint that inside there are scores of shoji screens, made of translucent paper over light wood frames.

But it took no time for Sydney, then a faltering but by no means moribund city, to become visually synonymous with its unconventional opera house, finished in 1973.

Although he died of AIDS before purchasing the house, his family used the plans he had left behind to buy the house, finish the project, and open it in 1999 as the Roger Brown Memorial Rock House Museum.

Andrew Fastow, Rex Shelby and Richard Causey, all other Enron executives, have all spent time at a Houston halfway house, finishing out sentences of various lengths related to the scandal.

Antiparos is distinctly Cycladic, its simple whitewashed single-storey sugarcube houses finished in Aegean-blue trim and crowded with bougainvillea.

It has been similarly well-subscribed, with two houses finished and 15 under way so far and, says the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson: "Our pilot scheme is transforming run-down properties into beautiful family homes".

"The quality of our in-house finishing is such that we could easily get the Poinçon twice over for our movements," he added.