Example sentences of "it [was/were] built [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built under the superintendence of Mr Wright , the Chief of the Company 's carriage department ; and the interior was fitted up by Messrs Gillow , eminent upholsterers of Oxford Street . |
| 2 | The staff are great but , like many venues around the world , it was built for the architect 's vision , not for practical multi-purpose use into the twenty-first century . |
| 3 | It was built on the site of the forum of Hengist 's Roman-style town in front of the great castle . |
| 4 | It was built on the site of a Roman villa and parts of a floor mosaic can still be seen in the garden . |
| 5 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |
| 6 | Waterloo Bridge , so named because it was built in the year of the battle ( 1815 ) , is one of the oldest of the iron bridges of considerable size . |
| 7 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 8 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 9 | It was built around the year 1800 at the crossing point of the brook and the Grand Union canal , which it carries above it . |
| 10 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | It was built around the shrine of Saint Alban , a Roman centurion who is said to be the first person in Britain to be executed for the Christian faith . |