Example sentences of "[noun pl] were put up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 .
2 More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution .
3 These decent working-class houses were put up in the 1770s and 1780s , where land was cheap and when building materials were plentiful , wages in the building trades relatively low , and money relatively cheap .
4 In later years some swings were put up for the school , but that was after my time .
5 In the following year , 100 nest boxes were put up in the wood , with the result that , in 1985 , no less than 60 pairs bred .
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