Collocations withhouse
These are words often used in combination withhouse.
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abandoned house
One needs only one abandoned house in a terrace for the entire terrace to end up in a difficult situation in the housing market.
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adobe house
By 1826 he had in addition to the adobe house, a garden with fruit trees, considerable cattle and horses.
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beach house
The duo flees the beach house pursued by the eager judge as the end screen appears.
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boarded-up house
It was amazing that the council did not know what it had bought—we did not know to whom the boarded-up houses belonged.
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brick house
Even at the brick house, for example, we investigated the possibility of using loadbearing brick, but it was not viable.
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burning house
Indeed, the perspective of the woman's family would probably best predict how the woman herself would feel when confronted with the existential challenge of a burning house.
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clapboard house
It is a two story clapboard house resting on a limestone block foundation.
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deserted house
A deserted house which is just a museum somehow loses character and heart and becomes bleak.
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dilapidated house
After all, one finds a tenant still in a dilapidated house in spite of any provisions which might entitle the landlord to enter.
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four-bedroom house
Providing any of these people can afford from £11,000 upwards, there is a four-bedroom house just down the road.
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frat house
At a frat house, many students believed that he was a medical student.
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fraternity house
The fraternity house ' buyers' ' market, and especially the ' sellers' ' market of bands that served it, were both competitive ones.
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gingerbread house
Once there, they used the pieces they picked up to make the roof to a gingerbread house.
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haunted house
After she has calmed down, she relates to them about her trip to the haunted house and her feelings of guilt.
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hen house
Why else would they ask the foxes to inspect the hen house?
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house of parliament
In the same month each house of parliament passed a resolution about the war criminals.
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modest house
Again, those powers can operate not only against large landowners and great corporations, but against the modest house holder and the ordinary citizen.
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neighbouring house
The helical turns at top and bottom extend the stair into the space of what should be the neighbouring house.
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one-room house
However, the family size (defined as those who eat from the same cooking pot) and the proportion of families living in a one-room house were similar in the two groups.
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one-story house
It is a one-story house resting on a raised concrete foundation.
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packed house
I, too, have been convinced to stay for his statement; he will have a packed house.
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packing house
A packing house is a building where fruits, oysters, or other items are packed for shipping and distribution.
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plantation house
She educated herself, and opened a private school in a spare bedroom of the plantation house.
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rented house
As for the rest, 12 per cent lived in a rented house and six per cent were borrowing a relative's house.
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run-down house
The music video features all band members performing in an old, run-down house.
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single-family house
This paper deals with a project for an extendable patio house - a one-storey single-family house.
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sorority house
He knocked on the sorority house door for a few minutes.
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three-bedroom house
Including land, an average three-bedroom house is costing £4,500 in one borough.
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three-story house
It was found afterwards that with great speed dry rot had spread right to the top of that three-story house.
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two-bedroom house
What size house does he want a two-bedroom house to be, how many square feet or cubic feet?
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two-room house
On the other hand, he will be the first to agree that there are many cases where a two-room house does serve.
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two-story house
The two-story house features a low-pitched hip roof with an extensively ornamented bracketed cornice and frieze.
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wooden house
Only a wooden house was permitted, no more than two storeys tall, suitable for occupation during summertime.
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