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Example sentences for "built about"

  • On this site stood Berkeley House, built about 1655 by Sir John Berkeley on a property called Hay Hill Farm, the grounds then covering the present Lansdowne House and Berkeley Square, as well as Berkeley and Stratton Street.

  • On the other side of Lyall Street is Lowndes Place, built about 1835.

  • Hanover Street and Princes Street were built about 1736.

  • Whitehorse Street, built about 1738, is so called from a public-house.

  • Built about 1902 to replace the old church on West St. at the St. James Cemetery.

  • Built about 1898 on what was part of the Crossman tract.

  • Built about 1904, it basically is unchanged, but looks different.

  • Illustration: The Gatehouse of Coughton Court, Warwickshire; built about 1530.

  • The keep, built about 1310, is a great square tower over a hundred feet high.

  • Built about 1535, it is a simple little round building with a square recess for the altar opposite the door.

  • Only the west front, built about 1594 of black and white marble, deserves mention.

  • A block eastward on the same side of the street is another row of charming old houses, built about 1800 by Colonel James Smith, "lately returned from the Revolutionary War.

  • It replaces the aqueduct bridge which was built about 1880, and before that, there was a bridge which carried the canal across the river to continue on its way to Alexandria.

  • To return to Mr. Templeman's house which he built about 1788.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also reported; altogether different; battle slain; built about; built house; built ship; built ships; built town; built upon; chiefly because; clearly shown; cover the; feed upon; foolish thing; fourteen days; good gravy; half broad; iron oxide; seven miles; shell fire; somewhere else; steal away; this our; tone quality; ultimate success; will you