Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The factory rapidly expanded and this led to the almost total destruction of the remaining parts of the Bishop 's Palace . |
| 2 | Leland claimed his company was worth over $16 million : 3407 Lincolns had been built and 241 remained in the plant at the time of the sale . |
| 3 | Three people were killed and 91 injured by the bomb . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Sarajevo , 15 people were killed and 80 wounded in the worst attack on civilians for a year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | Dec. 29 Four Palestinians are killed and 150 injured on the Gaza Strip during clashes with the Israeli security forces [ ibid . ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One Palestinian was killed and three wounded during the action . |
| 15 | At least 12 people were reported to have been killed and seven wounded in the attack . |
| 16 | Twenty-one people were killed and 167 injured in the explosions at two Birmingham city centre pubs in 1974 . |
| 17 | A struggle ensued and both fell to the ground . |