Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [coord] [adv] wounded " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was proud and delighted when Shimi Lovat invited me to join him as piper , and later , on the morning of 6th June , to pipe his 1st Commando Brigade through the surf and on to the Normandy beaches , where so many men were killed or seriously wounded . |
| 2 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 3 | A BELFAST hospital security guard was shot and badly wounded last night . |
| 4 | On March 24 a soldier was shot and seriously wounded at an otherwise peaceful demonstration by Islamic students in Makulla , east of Aden , and two days later counter-demonstrations were organized in the town , attended by several thousand people . |
| 5 | In earlier incidents on the UK mainland attributed to the IRA , a bomb exploded without a warning on the roof of an Army and Navy careers office in Derby city centre on Sept. 10 , and an Army sergeant was shot and seriously wounded in his car outside an Army recruitment office in Finchley , north London , on Sept. 17 . |
| 6 | Although the riots caused considerable damage and resulted in the arrest of some 90 people , nobody was killed or seriously wounded . |