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They arrive at the empty basement flat just after one.

Fate brings them together after she has an accident outside his basement flat.

We are interviewing a number of prospective tenants for our basement flat.

He stood almost on the same spot as before, and watched the lighted windows of a basement flat across the way.

It's a basement flat so that would be pointless.

The lights were on in the basement flat, shining out into the gloomy afternoon.

Keith leaves his basement flat in plenty of time.

For two days a Hellish din had been going on in the basement flat and garden.

Miss Tan could not be charged with running a brothel because she worked alone in her basement flat.

In an urban environment, basement flats are not advisable for the single dweller.

I dragged a bloated suitcase into the basement flat.

Apparently they had also bought the basement flat so they sold a larger property in 2006.

Trudie Styler, now his wife, lived in a basement flat two doors down.

Some time later, however, the company goes bankrupt and she's forced to move into a cheap basement flat while job-hunting.

She has two children aged three years and eight months, and her home is a two-room basement flat.

He knew that Carol occupied the basement flat.

Each house had a low black metal railing and gate, which led down murky stone steps to the basement flat.

They lived in a basement flat in South London then, he, his wife, and the two little girls.

The address turned out to be a tiny basement flat at the bottom of a battered flight of steps.

They own a £2.5m house and a £250,000 basement flat in Islington.

Ten minutes later they were parked opposite a basement flat in Ferryhill.

'It's in the basement flat and our friendly local councillor is out for the night.

"I think I'd rather do anything than live in a basement flat in London," she declared.

On the afternoon of 3 November, Knox accompanied police back to the house to investigate the basement flat.

Her husband died in 1989, and she moved into the basement apartment.

It is not clear whether the basement apartment was legal, he added.

You have a family like this moving to basement apartments.

For five years Virginia lived in a basement apartment across the street.

He's down and out, he said - living in a basement apartment with all his equipment there.

"Where are we going to put all these people from the illegal basement apartments?"

The woman lived alone in the basement apartment and was the only tenant.

She opened the door to the basement apartment and took the stairs to the main floor two at a time.

Owning a home with a basement apartment can be an investment.

The party was held by Tiara's father in a basement apartment.

Claire asked as her mother knocked at the basement apartment.

The Shadow stated that he would like to look at the basement apartment.

The intrusive sound came from a corner of his basement apartment.

They walked down the few stairs that led to the basement apartments.

He said that for two weeks, workers had been renovating the basement apartment.

A basement apartment is believed to have been occupied by the owner.

She watched as firefighters carried her friend and the children out of the basement apartment.

Basement apartments, or dwellings in which at least half the living space is above ground, are legal.

She walked down three steps and knocked at the door of Jim's basement apartment.

He gave me the address of his basement apartment.

"If people had a choice, they would not choose to live in a basement apartment or garage," he said.

Determined to better her situation, Martha moved into a cramped basement apartment.

The stranger turned to scan the interior of the basement apartment.

A tenant in a third basement apartment was critically injured.

Last year she and her two sons were in a basement apartment and lost everything.