Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [adj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton . |
| 2 | Trent half swam and half wriggled across the cockpit to unblock the drainpipes . |
| 3 | The factory rapidly expanded and this led to the almost total destruction of the remaining parts of the Bishop 's Palace . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So a new tactic was adopted and each put in £10 , raising a further £200 to £300 from friends . |
| 6 | The shelling stopped and all appeared to be quiet ; even the sniping had ceased . |
| 7 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 8 | A great many civil posts — postal officials , customs officers , policemen , street cleaners — were duplicated and this led to a serious imbalance between the non-productive bureaucracy and the private sector production workers . |
| 9 | Tilda clambered over the washboard , and clinging on by fingers and toes to the strakes , half slithered and half climbed down the side , gathered up the cat and skimmed across to Rochester . |
| 10 | ‘ Up the 'Ammers ! ’ they roared as they charged headlong and then half stumbled and half marched to the far end of the meadow . |
| 11 | During the campaign for the presidential and congressional elections which began on Aug. 11 , about 35 people were detained and eight injured in confrontations with police at rallies for two of the candidates , Aylwin and Hernán Büchi , on Oct. 12 . |
| 12 | Many went fishing and many went to Burton . |
| 13 | Following the demise of Bispham and Marton Depots and the routes that they served , in the early Sixties , twenty railcoaches were scrapped and two transformed into illuminated cars . |
| 14 | The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non-playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . |
| 15 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |
| 16 | Of 252 people who were questioned , 51 were exiled and 21 condemned to death . |
| 17 | Lying idle in impregnable harbours , the German fleet could not be enticed to battle by the British , while on land the trench line — now being hastily dug and fortified ran without interruption along the entire battlefront . |
| 18 | At least 52 people were killed and 190 wounded on Jan. 31 . |
| 19 | In addition intelligence figures showed that four people had been killed and 169 injured in attacks on foreigners by neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 20 | Three people were killed and 91 injured by the bomb . |
| 21 | At least 12 people were killed and 120 injured on Dec. 28 , 1989 , in the first fatal earthquake to have been recorded in Australia . |
| 22 | Soccer tragedy : Nine people were killed and 120 wounded in Baghdad when Iraqis fired shots in the air to celebrate Iraq 's 1–0 win over China in a World Cup soccer qualifying match . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the worst IRA attack on civilians for five years , eight Protestant workers were killed and five injured on Jan. 17 when a massive bomb destroyed their van at Teebane Cross . |
| 25 | Two Israeli settlers from the West Bank were killed and five wounded on Oct. 28 during an attack near Ariel on a bus carrying them to a demonstration against trading land for peace at the Middle East peace conference . |
| 26 | The nation was shocked when four students were killed and 11 wounded by poorly-organized National Guardsmen at Kent State University , Ohio . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Meanwhile in the besieged Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , at least eight people were killed and 95 injured in fighting as rebel Serbs tightened their grip on the strategic western suburbs . |
| 30 | From mid-August 1989 , 25 people were officially reported to have been killed and 109 wounded in 220 drug-related bombings which had caused an estimated US$17,000,000 in damages . |