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I don't know what I expected to see, but the place was all boarded-up and there were shutters over the windows.

Shops were boarded up, banks warned employees to dress down and police responded to reports of a suspicious package at the Bank.

The old log pavilion was an eyesore, with boarded-up windows, a trash-strewn kitchen, and cobwebs in every dusty corner.

It was a tall, red brick building with windows boarded up on every side of the building.

"Exactly. " He walked over to one of the boarded up windows.

Storefronts for exporters that have gone out of business are boarded up.

In a once-busy tourist area close to the border, well over half the shops are boarded up.

The hotel across the street was boarded up and inhabited by vagrants.

One or two houses on each street have been boarded up and abandoned.

The basement was littered with debris and the walls were boarded up where the water had coursed through and taken out one side of the house.

The area has never fully recovered. Boarded-up buildings, drug dealers and, recently, foreclosures have mushroomed.

The house, cold, empty and boarded up, was a wooden Dutch Colonial at the edge of the water.

Four cranes block out the skyline, but the foreground is row upon row of boarded-up houses and shuttered storefronts.

Around the square, windows are still boarded up.

have repurposed boarded-up malls as mixed-use developments with retail stores, offices and apartments.

We boarded up the hole in the wall.

Even seemingly stable neighbourhoods have boarded up houses.

The clockmaker stood in front of a boarded-up body shop, and the gritty sidewalk was deserted.

The last guests have been pushed out and the windows boarded up.

The house has been boarded up. The windows, the doors, everything.

We were near Llangollen in Wales and we turned up at a street of boarded-up and derelict houses.

Municipal taxes go unpaid, and boarded-up homes invite looting, drugs and other criminal activity.

There is no door here, and all the windows are boarded up.

In Marcus Hook, a much less affluent area, several shop fronts are boarded up.

Shopkeepers boarded up their stores for fear of looters .

and of course the house was boarded up.

Younis has been barred from the camp and the apartment where she taught the 13-member Strings of Freedom orchestra has been boarded up.

There are whole streets of mansions boarded up, and palaces for pigeons.

He boarded up the windows.

The school is located in a rundown area of Mansfield and boarded-up houses line the street around it.

No more boarded up windows so now you can see the turn up landscape all around you.

The question was, did he die before the house was boarded up or afterwards?

We can safely conclude that in fact he did die some time after the house was boarded up.

At the back of the room there is a boarded up doorway.

During last year's crunch in Wenzhou, for example, some bankrupt bosses simply boarded up their factories and fled town.

Its windows are boarded up, its pale pink facade crumbling away;

The entrance of the cavern was boarded up

Henley, UK: A painting of a dog is seen on a boarded up window in a house

You've boarded up every door