Example sentences of "was burnt down in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grist and Inchbrook Mills were damaged , and Rooksmoor was burnt down in 1932 , followed by Woodchester in 1938 . |
| 2 | The first station was burnt down in 1917 and the new station was reopened in 1925 . |
| 3 | The church was burnt down in 1798 . |
| 4 | This kind of genitive occurs especially in prepositional adjuncts of place : Old St Paul 's was burnt down in 1666 ; Harrod 's , the butcher 's . |
| 5 | On Nov. 27 part of Vienna 's Hofburg palace , where the Ausrian Hapsburg monarchs had lived , was burnt down in a fire which destroyed the 18th century Redoutensaal where the 1979 SALT treaty was signed . |