Example sentences of "killed [conj] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three people were killed and 91 injured by the bomb . |
| 2 | Although the overall extent of civilian casualties remained unclear , Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hammadi suggested during his visit to Tehran in mid-February [ see above ] that more than 20,000 of his compatriots had been killed and 60,000 wounded in the first 26 days of the war . |
| 3 | The IRA men died ten miles from the spot where ten days earlier eight soldiers had been killed and 27 injured in the Ballygawley bus bombing by the IRA . |
| 4 | Barnes was unhurt , but 14 people were reportedly killed and two arrested during the police action . |
| 5 | Several thousand people massed in the streets of Bamako , and opposition groups said that 148 had been killed and hundreds wounded in the three days . |
| 6 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 7 | The Governor of Caracas , Antonio Ledezma , reported that 100 prisoners had been killed and 200 injured at the Catia prison in western Caracas , after troops quashed a mass escape attempt sparked by the coup . |
| 8 | FORTY-ONE people were killed and 200 injured in a train crash at Kirodimal Nagar in Madhya Pradesh , India |
| 9 | Some 22 Vietnamese refugees were killed and 128 injured in an arson attack at the Shek Kong detention centre on Feb. 4 , the worst outbreak of violence since Vietnamese " boat people " began arriving in Hong Kong in 1975 . |
| 10 | In the most violent incident , seven people were killed and 70 injured in a clash on Jan. 9 , 1990 , between striking and non-striking workers at the Germiston railway station , near Johannesburg . |
| 11 | In Sarajevo , 15 people were killed and 80 wounded in the worst attack on civilians for a year . |
| 12 | In Cuba at least five people were killed and 28 injured as the powerful winds , rainstorms and freak waves battered western and central parts of the country . |
| 13 | Arafat claimed that four people had been killed and 231 injured in the town by Israeli forces " as a result of the erroneous announcement that the driver of the bus carrying Israeli tourists in Egypt was of Palestinian origin and came from Rafah " . |
| 14 | At Purley on 4 March 1989 , five people were killed and 87 injured after a crash , and a BR internal inquiry blamed the train driver for going through a red light . |
| 15 | Dec. 29 Four Palestinians are killed and 150 injured on the Gaza Strip during clashes with the Israeli security forces [ ibid . ] . |
| 16 | Hekmatyar 's forces had threatened to destroy the capital , Kabul , and had been involved in intensified fighting immediately prior to Fareed 's arrival from Peshawar ; at least 100 people were killed and 300 wounded in the worst bombardment of Kabul , the capital , for two -months . |
| 17 | Kuwaiti sources cited in the International Herald Tribune of Dec. 17 suggested that at least 7,000 Kuwaitis had been killed and 25,000 arrested since the invasion . |
| 18 | One Palestinian was killed and three wounded during the action . |
| 19 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 20 | A teenager was killed and another injured by a bomb which destroyed an electricity pylon , and a radio presenter at a pro-government radio station was injured by another bomb ; the capital and towns to the north were again plunged into darkness by power cuts . |
| 21 | In a separate incident on Sept. 14 a Nepalese member of UNIFIL was killed and another wounded in a clash with an armed group near the village of Yatar . |
| 22 | At present , six children are killed and 400 hurt in a year in crashes because they were not wearing a restraint . |
| 23 | At least 12 people were reported to have been killed and seven wounded in the attack . |
| 24 | Twenty-one people were killed and 167 injured in the explosions at two Birmingham city centre pubs in 1974 . |