Example sentences of "were put up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 2 | In later years some swings were put up for the school , but that was after my time . |
| 3 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |