Example sentences of "[verb] be shot in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some footage has been shot in Vietnam , the film has been hampered by a US embargo and complex negotiations with the Vietnamese government . |
| 2 | A detective has been shot in the head during a bank raid in Kent . |
| 3 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 4 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 5 | A nurse who saved a security guards life after he 'd been shot in the chest by an armed robber has received a top award . |
| 6 | The undeveloped film was found in her handbag after she 'd been shot in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists , while on holiday in Egypt a month ago . |
| 7 | A court 's been hearing how an off-duty nurse saved a security guard 's life after he 'd been shot in the chest during an armed robbery . |
| 8 | He 'd been shot in the head , left partially deaf and paralysed . |
| 9 | He imagined being shot in the water and it closing over his head , filling his mouth and lungs , the last moments of life choked out of him . |
| 10 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 11 | If I had n't done that I might have been shot in the eye and could have gone blind . |
| 12 | Nine people — six monks , two novices and an elderly nun — were found dead in a Buddhist temple in Arizona on Aug. 10 , each having been shot in the back of the head . |
| 13 | Trotsky and the ice-man had been his attempt to solve the problem of why he was still alive despite having been shot in the head . |
| 14 | They insisted that the film had been shot in Canada in 1957 , despite what the voice-over said . |
| 15 | One had been shot in the head and had later died , another had been wounded in the knee . |
| 16 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 17 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 18 | ( Until this point , films had been shot in continuous takes by cameras which were fixed in position and set well back f r()m the action . ) |
| 19 | ‘ She had been shot in the head and there was blood all over the sheets . |
| 20 | The Robe had been shot in Cinemascope in order to tempt the new television viewers back into the cinemas . |
| 21 | Mr Lewin had been shot in the chest by a .32 calibre bullet which missed his heart by two inches , while Mr Howard had been shot in the stomach . |
| 22 | Mr Lewin had been shot in the chest by a .32 calibre bullet which missed his heart by two inches , while Mr Howard had been shot in the stomach . |
| 23 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 24 | The victim had then chased the boy and caught him , before realising that he had been shot in the arm , which once more suggests that it can not have been a terribly powerful weapon . |
| 25 | He looked as if he had been shot in the chest . |
| 26 | Maybe they all felt OK because no-one had been shot in a park . |
| 27 | The UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group ( UNIIMOG ) , with responsibility for maintaining the truce , reported on March 8 , 1989 , that five Iranian soldiers had been shot in the back and killed in an ambush on Feb. 17 , although it did not confirm an Iranian claim that the ambush had been carried out by Iraqi forces . |
| 28 | It emerged at the trial that 89 of the victims , most of them suspected members of Sendero Luminoso , had been shot in the head . |
| 29 | Robinson , aged 63 , in deteriorating health and suffering from glaucoma , had been shot in the legs on July 27 ; he was also reported to have been beaten . |
| 30 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |