Sentence examples for had been pillaged from inspiring English sources
In addition to the looting of the palace, witnesses said stores in Bamako had been pillaged.
"It was a shell that had been pillaged by looters and junkies," he said.
The electrical generator and the water pumps for the plumbing for the 11,000 students had been pillaged.
Many regions were laid waste (northern Gaul, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, and numerous towns on the Aegean); many important cities had been pillaged or destroyed (Byzantium, Antioch, Olbia, Lugdunum); and northern Italy (Cisalpine Gaul) had been overrun by the Alemanni.
First, though, they must win at the Waca, something England have managed only once in the history of the ground (in 1978, when Australia's side had been pillaged by World Series Cricket).
Within days the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments claimed, via an Internet statement, that the objects had been pillaged by the British military in the late 19th century and should be given back.
We have been pillaged of almost everything, by the Arabs".
About 455,000 tonnes of food has been pillaged from WFP deliveries, according to the IRC.
"Entire towns have been pillaged, burned entire towns, and swaths of rural areas that now lie abandoned.
Literally out of sight, the country's marine resources have been pillaged almost to the point of no return.
