Sentence examples for house standing from inspiring English sources

Naipaul represented it in "A House for Mr. Biswas" as Hanuman House, standing "like an alien white fortress" in Chaguanas, the predominantly Indo-Trinidadian town in the former sugar-producing heartland.

The house, standing in its path, became even whiter.

Our latest initiative is a 14ft tall house standing on a 10x15ft plot.

Mr. Antoni bought his property for its location, intending to demolish the house standing on it now and rebuild.

The villagers of Bangaldoba Part I, which hardly has a house standing, wondered if the minister was joking.

He was also jailed after "he was found inside a house standing over a sleeping woman" with his trousers down.

The Lib Dems think demand for second homes pushes up prices for cash-strapped locals, who also complain about houses standing empty for much of the year.

The ruins of the Earl's Palace and 17th-century houses standing gable-end to the narrow paved streets are quite picturesque.

Houses standing on their own in attractive bits of countryside are unlikely to get permission unless they meet criteria known by planners as the "Gummer clause".

I had seen so many of these houses standing abandoned and I thought it would be a modest but important contribution".

Ackroyd describes Limehouse at that time as a grimy neighbourhood of "small shops and houses standing a few feet back from the pavement, little plots of impoverished humanity".