Example sentences of "[v-ing] [num] [n mass] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HUGE bomb exploded in the centre of Portadown today injuring six people and causing widespread devastation . |
| 2 | A large bomb had exploded in central Algiers on Oct. 31 , injuring four people but causing no deaths . |
| 3 | A MOTORING writer was banned from the road for three months yesterday after admitting doing 121 mph while testing a new car . |
| 4 | Glasgow 's great blackout experiment , affecting 400,000 people and covering the triangle from Glasgow Cross to Springburn and Shettleston , brought a deeper night to the city in those darkening days . |
| 5 | The fact that such an ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ is not unrelated to other , much more obviously parricidal ones , and that all of these insurrections against cultural restraint can be traced to childhood failures in the acquisition of the superego is nicely illustrated by an Italian terrorist who , having put his revolutionary ideology into practice by murdering seventeen people and kidnapping an American general , justified his activities at his trial by proudly explaining that ‘ My challenge began from the school benches of Centocelle [ his home town ] . |
| 6 | Bombs exploded in Amritsar and Patiala on June 4 , killing eight people and injuring 35 others . |
| 7 | MAOIST ‘ Shining Path ’ guerrillas attacked a hamlet in the central Peruvian jungle , killing eight people and wounding seven in the second raid in the zone in less than a month , Panamericana Television said . |
| 8 | On Dec. 6 a bomb destroyed the Department of National Security ( DAS ) headquarters in Bogotá , killing 67 people and wounding up to 800 others . |
| 9 | KABUL — Fifteen mujahedin rockets slammed into residential areas of Kabul over the weekend , killing 10 people and wounding 27 , writes Ahmed Rashid . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , when Palestinian rocket fire and a mine explosion had killed two civilians and two soldiers , the Israelis shelled the town of Hasbaya , killing 45 people and wounding another 45 . |
| 11 | He denied his brother had any role in planting the car bomb that ripped through the garage of the twin skyscraper complex on 26 February , killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 . |
| 12 | When another objector pointed out that the Pan-Am jumbo jet which exploded in mid-air over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988 , killing 270 people and scattering its debris for miles , had just minutes earlier passed over the Chapelcross nuclear power station , the reality came frighteningly close . |
| 13 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 14 | Three earthquakes struck Peru on April 5-6 , the severest of them ( measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale ) killing 35 people and injured 750 others in the northern jungle province of San Martín . |
| 15 | Unidentified gunmen attacked the demonstrators , killing 25 people and injuring 82 others . |
| 16 | The country 's worst rail accident since 1963 occurred in Shiga prefecture , near Kyoto , on May 14 , when two passenger trains collided head-on on a single track , killing 42 people and injuring more than 400 . |
| 17 | In another incident , three men on motorcycles hurled a grenade into a mosque in the central Pakistani city of Bahawalpur and opened fire on the congregation yesterday , killing five people and injuring 40 . |
| 18 | On Friday , 13 powerful explosions ripped through Bombay , India 's commercial and business capital , killing 250 people and injuring at least 1,200 . |
| 19 | Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened , two trains collided head-on killing four people and injuring 22 . |
| 20 | Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened , two trains collided head-on killing four people and injuring 22 . |
| 21 | A large bomb placed by the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement exploded at the tax administration office in Lima on Feb. 7 , killing two people and injuring 31 . |
| 22 | On Feb. 2 , National Guardsmen forcibly dispersed a meeting , killing two people and injuring several others . |
| 23 | The rival Christian forces traded rocket and machine gun fire in Beirut on March 9 , killing two people and ending the week-long truce . |
| 24 | A bomb exploded in the railway station in Mandalay on Dec. 11 , killing two people and wounding 18 others . |
| 25 | AN ARTILLERY duel was fought between Israeli troops and guerrillas in southern Lebanon yesterday , killing two people and wounding two others . |
| 26 | A gale in October 1987 devastated south-east England , killing 19 people and felling millions of trees . |
| 27 | In southern Beirut on March 13 clashes took place between the two rival Shia Moslem militias , the Syrian-backed Amal and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah , killing seven people and wounding 34 , before the Syrian army intervened to stop the fighting . |
| 28 | On May 21 Israeli fighter aircraft attacked Hezbollah positions around Janta in the eastern Bekaa near the Syrian border , killing seven people and wounding 18 others . |