Example sentences of "built the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1695 he built the west tower on his local church at Frampton , in a mixture of classical and traditional taste , then he built Forston in 1698 , before rebuilding his own house , Frampton Court , in 1704 .
2 Moses , a man distinguished by wisdom and courage , had guided the emigration , founded Jerusalem , built the Temple , divided the people into twelve tribes , established the priesthood and altogether enacted praiseworthy laws .
3 The engineers built the craft , UOSAT , to relay information between radio amateurs and to make science lessons more interesting .
4 At a party on Monday night thrown by George Ann Carter — wife of the late Amon Carter , whose father built the Amon Carter Museum — I spied a group of blonde teenagers in Valentino who could easily , in different outfits , have been cheerleaders ; they had the regular features of the all-American girl from the heart of the USA .
5 My grandfather built the village in 1895 — not as a company town .
6 They built the council garage with built for the when Scott came here .
7 It was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell , the man who built the Brighton Pavilion .
8 Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers .
9 you see then they pulled them all down and built the ice rink there .
10 Thomas Brassey built the Paris to Rouen Railway in the early 1840s and held contracts in fifteen other countries .
11 That 's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse , so they could take them over on a barrow .
12 I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know .
13 My great-grandfather built the lodge .
14 Mackay had no love for the Jacobite cause and in spite of his defeat at the Battle of Killiecrankie , he was given the task of subduing the Highlands , where he built the fort at the head of Loch Linnhe which became known as Fort William .
15 Dryden spent his £13,000 redundancy money on the plot of land where he illegally built the bungalow .
16 He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water .
17 William Dargan , built the Co Down Railway and the Northern Railway that the new bridge will link together when completed
18 The men who built the Belle in 1959 : including centre , Manager Joe Franklin , on his left Bert Kirby , Body-shop foreman , and right Stanley Holmes the Rolling Stock Superintendent .
19 They bought the farm from the late William Wards and built the camp there .
20 ‘ Then who built the ruins ? ’
21 It was bought in the 1790s by the Playne family , who built the lake ( Gatcombe Water ) , as well as new buildings .
22 He built the Stone Quay both as a landing stage and promenade .
23 The Tower of London was William 's first and most important care and in 1080 he built the stone keep now called the White Tower .
24 Outside London , his major contract was the execution ( with his brother John ) of the ambitious designs of Sir Bernard de Gomme [ q.v. ] for new fortifications in Portsmouth , where he also built the Garrison Hospital .
25 Well fo a at sixteen I went into the department that built the machines and er I was , I think it was bell was going for lunchtime and a lad come by says hello Taffy how you going on in here ?
26 I mean John Knox and Martin Luther Thingmy , I mean they built the Kirk on the tenets of independence .
27 I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge
28 Derek and I built the aviary between us out of ordinary three by three timber and chicken wire .
29 My friend Eric Barnes built the punt we use and the basic design is hard to beat .
30 That 's why the local authorities built the Lido .
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