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Meanings of build houses in English

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Usage of build houses in English
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Local authorities and central government must build houses on a large scale.
The Guardian
2
They build houses, but not by long, tedious days of painstaking labor.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
3
They had well-shaped tools to dig the earth and to build houses.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
4
Bedouins fled the desert to build houses, which they then rented out.
News.com.au
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It is his duty to build houses, and to build them well.
Making the Most of Life
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There are treatises enough professing to instruct people how to build houses.
The House That Jill Built, after Jack's Had Proved a Failure
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Though they go naked, they build houses, and use bows and gravatanas.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
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Draining wetlands to build houses curbs the ability of soils to regulate floods.
Reuters
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They want to grow things and build houses on this land.
Reuters
10
You know lots of folks have to build houses every year.
The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol / Or, The Story of ...
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They get preachers to preach sermons, and they build houses out of stones.
The University of Hard Knocks
12
You know, fools build houses, and wise men live in them.'
A Woman Intervenes
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I mean, cut down all the trees and stuff and build houses there?
Anthill: a novel
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Sir, - The proposal to build houses on Bray Head is an outrage.
The Irish Times
15
If the fellow could build houses, what did his clothes matter?
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
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They are also beginning to build houses differently to cope with varying water levels.
The Irish Times
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New Zealand
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