At the outbreak of the Second World War, the number of locomotives at the depot was bolstered by the loan of several tank engines from the GWR, usually fitted with the distinctive balloon spark arrestors.

The dative of purpose is rare in this type of writing.

The worst-hit economies were the Indonesian, Malaysian, Thailandish, Philippines and Korean ones.

Lizzie and she got a dozen of large bottles and the loan of a basket and we got a currant pan and a half-pound of cooked ham in the shop next door and got on the tram for Whitehall.