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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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end
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You run down the metal fire escape on the gable end of the building.
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Bonfires were got up at the gable ends .
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The gable end of the house looked down on us from about fifty metres away, windowless.
wall
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They support the gable wall and the walkways with a top fixing that accommodates movement of the roof structure in three planes.
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Fantastic painted foliage is appearing in streets and adorning gable walls , bringing the country into the city.
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Where this problem was found at high level on the aisle gable walls , it was owed to a poor constructional detail.
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The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls .
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The gable wall revealed Roman bricks, the simple interior was soothing.
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The present house is old, with a west gable wall , 8 feet thick and built of solid stone.
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The gable wall structure consists of a series of fabricated steel mullions at 3.6m centres.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Attractive stone built houses in the centre of the town have decorated timber surfaces under the gables and half-hipped roofs.
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In the high front gable a plaque says 1857.
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Many of the houses were eighteenth century or earlier with steeply sloping red-tiled roofs and half-timbered gables painted white or pale green.
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Ridge, hip and gable tiles are commonly displaced by gales, causing accumulation of debris in gutters, valleys and junctions.
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The gable wall structure consists of a series of fabricated steel mullions at 3.6m centres.
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Then voices would cry in the falling sigh of wind around its gables.
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Timber fascias and barge-boards are standard, while many pitched roof garages feature timber-clad gable ends.