Sentence examples for was burnt down from inspiring English sources

The first Roman buildings were light military structures, and within 20 years the town was burnt down, possibly in the Boudiccan rebellion.

Swelsen was also wounded in the fighting and the church was burnt down.

Everything was burnt down.

The great building was burnt down in 1871 during the upheavals of the Paris Commune.

On Thursday, the administrative headquarters of Giza province, which includes west Cairo, was burnt down by pro-Morsi supporters.

It took 13 years to build, was burnt down within two months and miraculously rebuilt within another two years.

"The houses were being burnt down".

But in Tasmania it has proven disastrous, with senior Aboriginal leaders privately conceding that it will only get much worse, expecting to see houses being burnt down.

Though clashes continued both on the ground (two research centres tied to Hamas were burnt down) and in the media, and Israel killed two more PIJ men in the West Bank, by the evening of July 19th appeals to "national unity" had prevailed and both sides announced a fresh truce.How long will it last?

Nothing earth-shattering or groundbreaking: just people getting thrown under trains and houses being burnt down.

Clodius attempted to try Cicero for executing citizens without a trial during the Catiline conspiracy, resulting in Cicero going into self-imposed exile and his house in Rome being burnt down.