It was as if the credit crunch and the sub-prime crisis had been left firmly at the elegant auction house door, along with dogs, muddy gumboots and maxed-out credit cards.
One day in mid-December, there was a knock at the kitchen-house door and he found Chance Poxley standing in the tall dead grass, wearing a small tweed fedora, shading his eyes with one hand.
It spared the walls and part of the roof, then moved on to raze the house next door.
The church minister's house next door is home to the Bangladesh Welfare Association.
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These ready-to-build properties may have a house next door or down the street.
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"It's been house to house, door to door, street to street, hill to hill activity, " he said of one location.
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They bought the house next door and added a few more tables.
Sharon Pavey, who has lived in the house next door for 10 years, said the family had only recently moved to the area.
The fire curled siding on the house next door, separated by a narrow alley barely the width of a car and filled with charred debris.
Mrs Pascoe, who was nine at the time, was in her family's home in Chapel Street when the house next door received a direct hit.
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The house next door was untouched after a timely wind change.
Since your bits may travel through an upstairs apartment or the house next door, HomePlug uses a networkwide password as an encryption key to keep your data invisible to neighbors' prying eyes.
Gwyneth Brindley is a church organist and has been a member at Penrallt all her life as three generations of her family have lived in the house next door since the 1920s.
Those people over there, whether they be in the house next door, a city or county over or on the other side of the world are able to make something better and cheaper than I can.
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Then, on the morning of June 2, their safe house's door was burst open by the Zimbabwean cops.
Jurors heard that a "large number of people" had keys to the house and the door was usually left unlocked.
And one of the examples that people cite is that when President Obama has talked about race directly, as in the case of Harvard history professor Henry Louis Gates, who was arrested in his own home after coming back from a trip and had difficulty getting into the house because his door was stuck.
He said the robbers knocked on the door of the house and rushed in when his housemate opened the door.
We left food and water in the house and left the door open for them.
Then she let the air into the house, the front door and the back door open, the kitchen windows.
The 79-year-old entertainer will appear at the house's front door to the sound of the theme to his show Jim'll Fix It.
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Users can practice this with, for instance, leaving the house without checking the door lock multiple times, over a given time period.
When Seth fell to the floor and Amy ran out of the kitchen, she left the house through the back door, taking the shotgun with her.
Waist-high water rushed into the front door of the house of Green's aunt, Nellie Green Francis, and pushed much of her life out the back door.
Mrs Kennedy told the jury that she went round to her mother's house and knocked the door and initially got no answer but then Kane came to the door holding a phone.
Ms Berry, whose disappearance in 2003 the day before her 17th birthday was widely publicised in the local media, escaped from Mr Castro's house by kicking the door and screaming for help while her alleged captor was out.
Beyond merely guarding the entrances to your house, he shows how the software can keep a detailed log or send text message alerts every time any door in the house is opened, to monitor practically every activity in the house.
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Father enters his house through the back door, because that is where he parks the car in which he spends hours each day, cursing his fellow drivers on roads not designed for the volume and speed of traffic they handle today.
But you wouldn't leave the front door to your house unlocked either, would you?
Protecting your personal communications online is even more important than locking the door to your house.
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