At the end, Colonel Qaddafi let the reporters accompany him outside and posed for photographs with them against the background of his bombed-out house.

The Chinese often had to turn to bombed-out houses to obtain bricks, beams, and other such materials.

How could the house have killed her Peter in that bombed-out public house.

I'm quitting, and we're buying that bombed-out house.'

Temperatures plummeted to -30 C and there was no protection from the biting cold in the bombed-out houses.

As a small child he witnessed the brutalities of war, even having been rescued from the rubble of a bombed-out house in Warsaw.

She began collecting household items, thus saving historical every-day items from bombed-out houses.

A Serb policeman halted our tractor and told us to enter a bombed-out house near the road.

Troops that couldn't fit onto the bridge were positioned in a bombed-out house slightly upstream of the bridge.

Other women had found the strength to cope with bereavement, and bombed-out houses, and husbands in prisoner-of-war camps.