Example sentences of "they built a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when besieged by the Romans , they built a mikva at the top of a high mountain in the desert . |
| 2 | They built a town on a small mound between the two rivers . |
| 3 | For the workers they built a ‘ new town ’ . |
| 4 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 5 | So beside every major town they built a castle garrisoned by loyal troops usually under the command of the local sheriff . |
| 6 | They built a separate development area , and Wilkinson reports that at the time he was writing his book three major new projects were being developed within it , but as none had reached completion there is no data about the effects of this new pattern of introducing new technology in that company . |
| 7 | But Millwall 's graft and their sweeping system locked Kevin Keegan 's side out after they built a solid base for their defending with a goal after 20 minutes . |
| 8 | They built a vast edifice of mystifying theoretical explanation on the assumption grammar is a ‘ natural ’ , autonomous system that cultural practices play no part in shaping . |
| 9 | They built a dome over it to keep the duststorms out and the new air in . |
| 10 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
| 11 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 12 | They built a great number of cottages for their workpeople ; a Unitarian chapel for their spiritual welfare , a school for their children , and a mansion for themselves . |
| 13 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |
| 14 | They built a temple in a side-street to house their Holy Books and to dispense hospitality . |
| 15 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |
| 16 | I have n't seen it for years , of course , but they built a big extension . |
| 17 | Under the kitchen floor they built a brick-lined store , so cleverly concealed that anyone lifting the floorboards in a random search would see only the earth beneath . |
| 18 | Cos that was about , that must have been about erm er I 'd say time about , yes I should say about nineteen , nineteen thirty four and they built a pipeline out from the sewer outfall and they put two dolphins out there , and they reckon that the water , when it 's purified just to go into the river was really clean water . |
| 19 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 20 | And it was important , the way they built a stack . |
| 21 | they built a gimcrack shrine up Zizkov Hill |
| 22 | ‘ They built a grill in the wall of the crypt to allow water to draw into that tunnel . |
| 23 | The old boys said it were a gift from the elder gods and they built a special shrine for it in the square . ’ |
| 24 | From there they moved to Pannonia , where they built a city called Sicambria . |
| 25 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 26 | You know when we used to work , go to Southern Trust they built a new , big new Morrisons there did n't they ? |
| 27 | I thought they built a wall around it the |
| 28 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 29 | they built , they built a well beaten aircraft and they have n't got half the technical advantages that the West has and their computers has still , practically just got out of the stage . |
| 30 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |