Sentence examples for had been burnt from inspiring English sources

Three sites had been burnt four times in the past 40 years (4 ×), three sites had been burnt once in September 2012 (1 ×), and three control sites had not been burnt (0 ×).

All had been burnt alive.

Her face — eyes, ears, nose, and lips — had been burnt.

The entire marketplace had been burnt to the ground.

"I felt like my fingers had been burnt, a little".

Later, we caught some papers that had been burnt.

"But all the labels had been burnt off.

He said: "We couldn't get anything out of them because they had been burnt.

Authorities were having serious problems identifying many of the charred corpses because some had been burnt beyond recognition.

One of the most haunting sights, he recalled, was cattle that had been burnt as they sat in the fields.

Politician Maina Maaji Lawan said Baga had been "burnt down" and estimated that 2,000 may have been killed.