Example sentences of "and [adj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 .
2 The carnage which ensued cost many lives , the chroniclers offering totals of 1000 killed and 3000 drowned in the Swale .
3 As I drove back towards town , a rich , yellow moon hung suspended between violet clouds and another glowed in the Vltava .
4 Tod has a brother in Gartree Maximum Security , and another drowned in the Thames .
5 Terrorising and plunder , all by Mamelukes , and all countenanced by the Sultan because he 's afraid of ‘ em .
6 Those remaining in Madeira were subjected to persecution and many emigrated to the West Indies .
7 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 .
8 Dec. 29 Four Palestinians are killed and 150 injured on the Gaza Strip during clashes with the Israeli security forces [ ibid . ] .
9 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 .
10 IN pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration of the sum of FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS now paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor ( the receipt of which sum the Vendor hereby acknowledges ) the Vendor as beneficial owner hereby conveys unto the Purchaser ALL THAT Garage known as Number 47 West Street aforesaid in the County of Gloucester all which said property is more particularly described in the annexed plan and outlined in red TO HOLD the same unto the Purchaser in fee simple together with the benefit of but subject also to a restrictive covenant contained in a Conveyance dated the Twenty-fifth day of May One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four made between the Stroud Brewery Company Limited of the one part and William Thomson deceased of the other part but otherwise free from incumbrances .
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