Example sentences of "[vb past] missing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to know about any girls reported missing since yesterday . |
| 2 | A Sudanese senior local official of the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) in Juba and a UNDP driver , reported missing during October [ see p. 39132 ] , were apparently judged and executed by the Khartoum authorities , according to an Agence France-Presse report on Nov. 6 . |
| 3 | S.A.S. repatriated prisoners having any INFORMATION about Lieutenant LESLIE GEORGE CAIRNS , 1st S.A.S. Regiment , reported missing over France with 21 other men on June 17 , 1944 , are earnestly entreated to communicate with Mrs Cairns , 21 Thirlestane Road , Edinburgh . |
| 4 | AN RAF helicopter and three mountain rescue teams were called out last night to search for eight climbers reported missing on Skye . |
| 5 | Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning en route to the Dardanelles where 25,000 Australian and New Zealand troops were killed , 76,000 were wounded and 13,000 reported missing in a bungled and mismanaged expedition against the Turks . |
| 6 | Vietnam 's co-operation in the Cambodian peace process had removed one of the major obstacles to normalization , but there remained the issue of approximately 2,300 US service personnel reported missing in action ( MIAs ) in the war and still unaccounted for . |
| 7 | Throughout 1990 Laos continued to assist the USA in the search for US servicemen reported missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam war . |
| 8 | Three hundred and twenty-five items reported missing by government inspectors turn up in cupboard on site |
| 9 | Three hundred and twenty-five works of art reported missing from Paris 's Musée Jacquemart-André in an inventory published in April 1991 by the Cour des Comptes the lofty body responsible for controlling public finance have not only been found , but never left the museum according to a second survey carried out by order of a Paris court . |
| 10 | Much US media interest in the summit was taken up by the issue of whether there were still US prisoners of war alive in the former Soviet Union and whether information was available on US soldiers declared missing in action ( MIA ) . |
| 11 | A group of charity workers feared missing in the Bosnian war zone have turned up safe and well . |
| 12 | Almost nothing has been heard of Ben since he went went missing on Kos , although a British couple claimed to have seen him in August on the island of Lesbos . |
| 13 | The partly-clothed body of Heidi Reddin was found in a water-filled ditch near her home in Downham Market , six weeks after she went missing on December 15 , 1976 . |
| 14 | ‘ Sam went missing on Tuesday . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Riddle went missing on Friday evening ; when did his family report it to the police ? ’ |
| 16 | Katie went missing on Thursday after taking her mother 's prized gems , some cash and her passport . |
| 17 | A man who went missing on Tuesday has turned up in Cornwall . |
| 18 | And wreckage has been found of two American helicopters that went missing on a routine mission from the U S S Okinowa . |
| 19 | A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them . |
| 20 | Many went missing during the war . |
| 21 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
| 22 | The disc went missing for many years , and was the subject of at least one book . |
| 23 | Miss Larkin , 24 , and Mr Pettitt , 25 , went missing for five weeks before forensic experts discovered human remains in the remnants of a fire in a secluded spot . |
| 24 | David Peter Bicker , aged three , went missing for four hours in Cononley , near Skipton , North Yorkshire , during a family visit to friends but police aided by the force helicopter and around 100 villagers who undertook a detailed search found the youngster safe and well at around 9pm . |
| 25 | went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him . |
| 26 | That made it 68 for 4 as the rain returned and 14 minutes nett went missing around the tea interval . |
| 27 | Despite occasional lapses ( like the 100kg of highly enriched uranium that went missing in the early 1960s from a factory in Pennsylvania ) the system has not failed catastrophically . |
| 28 | Many years ago , according to the legend , the first daughter of his people 's lineage went missing in the forest . |
| 29 | I 'm not carping about the way Marks handled the case ; an adult woman went missing in circumstances which seemed to offer a plausible explanation . |
| 30 | Shortly afterwards he went missing in the cauldron of the Ruhr , I only wanted to tell him he should have got more than 30 bob a piece for them . |