Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 2 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 3 | They were introduced in the seventeenth century as a method of paying for the upkeep of highways when other methods had failed . |
| 4 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 5 | In essence a massive L-shaped tower with walls 12 feet thick , a well and a pit dungeon , it was adapted in the seventeenth century for more comfortable and less defensive living . |