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Example sentences for "corrugated iron"

  • Captain Burton took to Zanzibar a boat of corrugated iron, which was so speedy that the Arabs called her the Runner-away; it would be interesting to know the details of her construction.

  • It consists of seven or eight scattered frame houses, with roofs of corrugated iron, set in a dull, featureless flat on the banks of a muddy river.

  • Brick houses were rising here and there among the wooden shanties and the sheds of corrugated iron.

  • Their paper was printed in one of Dalton's corrugated iron houses.

  • When Henry, or Enrique Dalton sailed from England, he shipped a couple of corrugated iron buildings, taking them to South America where he used them for several years.

  • The first regular course of public lectures here was given in 1856 under the auspices of a society known as the Mechanics' Institute, and in one of Henry Dalton's corrugated iron buildings.

  • The walls were of vertical boards battened with thin strips, and the roof was of corrugated iron.

  • What the traveller sees in the territorial capital now is a score or less of corrugated iron buildings, with half a dozen houses of wood and three of adobe.

  • Every one had plain, unpainted wooden walls, and every one a corrugated iron roof.

  • In one the floor was ripped up, in another the daylight gleamed through the corrugated iron roof, and in some houses the inner walls had been completely destroyed, and only heaps of rubbish lay on the floor.

  • It was a good-sized house, with stone walls and a corrugated iron roof.

  • It was a frame house of two storeys, with broad verandahs on both floors and a roof of corrugated iron.

  • It was like a deluge from heaven, and it rattled on the roof of corrugated iron with a steady persistence that was maddening.

  • They made their way with all the crowd to a great shed of corrugated iron, and the rain began to fall in torrents.

  • The town is composed almost entirely of single-storey houses built of corrugated iron, with occasional walls of brick or cement.

  • Frere is simply a speck--a corrugated iron oasis--on the vast undulating plains of the veldt.

  • The same story has to be told about tiles, slates, corrugated iron, and every other form of "legitimate" roofing substance.

  • Then we proceeded to the wool-shed, built of corrugated iron, the wooden shed having been burnt down.

  • They are always either built of corrugated iron, which conveys every sound, or of wood, which is equally resonant.

  • It was so unexpected, you see, after you had been wandering about in a city of corrugated iron dwellings.

  • Corrugated iron is the easiest and cheapest to get and the fashion of having a residence of that material has been so well established that even a rich man takes it as a matter of course that he must live in one.

  • Many of the houses are built of sheets of corrugated iron, their walls wrinkled up like a washboard, and all have roofs of this material.

  • A hundred yards or so farther on you suddenly came on a corrugated iron sentry-box, with a small weather-cock and a shell case suspended from a stick beside it, where the gas sentry over the right company Headquarters was stationed.

  • If no deep dug-outs were available, the support platoons lived in niches cut into the side of the trench and roofed over with corrugated iron, timber and sandbags.

  • You must come another day and see what Sergeant Parsons is doing with the vast quantities of timber, corrugated iron, and other stores supplied to make the billets staff-proof for the future.

  • They had concealed themselves as best they could in ditches and narrow tunnels made with corrugated iron or planks.

  • With the exception of a good sea wall, there is little of the substantial about Beira--only a few frame buildings, and others of corrugated iron.

  • Wood and iron buildings--corrugated iron--are mostly used in both dwelling houses and business places.

  • Wood and iron" houses--corrugated iron mostly--is the style of European homes seen in Zululand.

  • The hut itself is, like most of the New Zealand Alpine huts, a serviceable building of corrugated iron on a framework of wood, lined with thick linoleum.

  • A commuter, he had probably gone in by that morning's launch, in which case he spent three full hours in "toil" or in the purchase of a sheet of corrugated iron or a tin of oil.

  • But it is disheartening when the change is only from thatch, which needs to be replaced every so often, to corrugated iron, without any other signs of durability.

  • There is not much of a village and most of the buildings are made of corrugated iron.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acknowledge the; begged them; but when they are; considerable length; corrugated iron; fluid theory; learnt from; local taxation; make them; mutual support; not come; not have; often said; ordinary light; perpendicular height; remain faithful; remained standing; sharp glance; then remember; two pieces; will follow; you try