Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] terrible [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that my nose stopped a terrible blow ; |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 3 | Then came the terrible sense of disbelief and at last the dawning realization that she would never be held in his embrace , breathe in the scent of his cigars or hear his kindly voice ever again . |
| 4 | ‘ Then , as a thunderbolt , came the terrible catastrophe of 1914 , and progress changed into destruction . ’ |
| 5 | Then came the terrible accident to the Turkish Airlines DC-10 in the forest of Ermenonville near Paris in which 346 people lost their lives . |
| 6 | She shivered as she recalled the terrible blackness that had invaded her home and had clung to and coated the village on that night when she had heard the voices . |
| 7 | The Shah said later that he noticed the terrible wind and the gloomy sight of the planes grounded by strikes . |
| 8 | They could have been attacked by Indians ; they could have run out of food and water and suffered a terrible death by starvation . |
| 9 | The Italian Air Force 's display team suffered a terrible accident in August 1988 while performing over the Ramstein Air Force base in West Germany . |
| 10 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Pears suffered a terrible gash and was brave to continue after being caught by a player 's studs . |
| 11 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 12 | I 'd a terrible urge to shout , Fuck-all 's well up this turret , mate ! |
| 13 | To those who did not criticize , Spurgeon was virtually a demi-god : when it got out that ‘ the pastor ’ , a vegetarian and total abstainer , also smoked a cigar a day — ‘ to the glory of God ’ , he quipped to a visiting American — the news ‘ caused a terrible scandal in the dissenting world ’ . |
| 14 | Behind him the dogs bayed in triumph , then suddenly there came a terrible scream which clutched Corbett 's heart — a cry of dreadful despair . |
| 15 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 16 | Before she had time to assimilate anything , from the top of the gangway came a terrible growl — deep , huge , more frightening in its ferocity than any wild animal she 'd ever heard . |
| 17 | Isis persisted in her demand to know his true name and such was Re 's pain that he allowed the terrible name to pass from his own body into that of Isis . |
| 18 | Hoover faced a terrible dilemma . |
| 19 | The world paid a terrible price . ’ |
| 20 | We paid a terrible price for our defeat . |
| 21 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 22 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 23 | The horse 's hooves and the iron cart rims made a terrible clatter on the cobblestones but at last silence fell as she came to a halt outside our door . |
| 24 | She remembered too that her mother made a terrible clatter with the plates on purpose , Cati knew , because she said afterwards she was scared of such talk , she never liked it when the men got angry , as she put it , what was the use ? |
| 25 | The unfortunate Capel Junior made a terrible hash of things and belted the ball yards over the bar . |
| 26 | He made a terrible swing of what I believe was a 4-iron and pulled his ball into the left trap . |
| 27 | ‘ I made a terrible bosh of it . |
| 28 | ‘ I made a terrible bosh of it last night . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They left furs , stereos and other valuables but made a terrible mess looking for cash and jewels , especially in the bedrooms . |
| 30 | IAN RUSH believes Kenny Dalglish made a terrible mistake when he walked tearfully out of the Liverpool dressing room for the last time . |