Sentence examples for were burnt by from inspiring English sources

Ezra then led the people to locate the only surviving copy of Torah as the remaining were burnt by Nebuchadnezzar.

In 2009, in Gojra town of Punjab, nearly 40 houses and a church were burnt by the mob, and at least eight members of the community were killed, all burnt alive.

Many retail customers were burnt by EBs, but Mr Inano defends Nomura's decision to market them.

Some were burnt by the heat but most were cut as the shock wave from the explosion violently smashed windows.

As Anglo-Irish Big Houses were burnt by Republicans during the war of independence, many Protestants fled to the Home Counties.

In July and August, according to NGOs, hundreds of Masai farms were burnt by policemen in Loliondo, after herdsmen hit by drought had moved cattle on to the land leased by OBC.

Have the fingers on his right hand been burnt by trying to play too hard and too fast?

Often Sunni houses are burnt by Shia militiamen and in one village Kurdish fighters had reportedly sprayed over the word "apostate" placed there by Isis and instead written "Kurdish home".

The natural gas is burnt by an existing gas-fired boiler and the heat from it is currently covering their heat demand.

Crops were flattened by the storm and in some instances had been "burnt" by the sheer force of the wind.

"Rabbi Yehudah said: They issued a proclamation in Sodom saying: 'Everyone who strengthens the hand of the poor and the needy with a loaf of bread shall be burnt by fire!'" (Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer 25).