Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] shoot [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to the bad weather conditions , the artillery were shooting blind . |
| 2 | In separate incidents in November a journalist was shot dead and bombs caused damage to the Istanbul offices of ANAP . |
| 3 | The assailant was shot dead by police . |
| 4 | On July 11 a police corporal was shot dead during an unsuccessful attempt by 100 provincial police to storm the barricade ; some reports claimed that he had been killed in cross-fire . |
| 5 | Violent incidents involving local inhabitants and US troops were reported outside the US Albrook Air Force Station in the days leading up to the Bush visit , and on June 10 one US soldier was shot dead and another wounded while driving an army vehicle near the Caribbean coastal city of Colón . |
| 6 | AN OFF-DUTY soldier was shot dead last night in the heart of Loyalist West Belfast . |
| 7 | On Dec. 1 a Jewish settler was shot dead in an ambush near Ramallah and el-Bireh on the West Bank . |
| 8 | The priest was shot dead as he drove back to his parish after conducting a wedding ceremony , but nothing was stolen . |
| 9 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 10 | TWO days later a burglar was shot dead outside their room at night . |
| 11 | Relations between the two countries had deteriorated sharply in mid-December when a Bangladeshi border guard was shot dead by Myanman troops [ see p. 38681 ] . |
| 12 | A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | A constable was shot dead yesterday in Alexandra , a Johannesburg township , bringing to 42 the total of SAP men assassinated on active duty so far this year . |
| 14 | The 20-year-old trooper was shot dead in a Belfast riot six months before she was born . |
| 15 | A tribal chief and another civilian were shot dead in demonstrations at Kévé , 50 km north-west of the capital on April 8 . |
| 16 | A PRIMARY school teacher was shot dead in front of a class by her estranged husband yesterday . |
| 17 | On Feb. 21 , 1990 , a Zambian fisherman was shot dead and two others were wounded by Zaïrean soldiers while fishing in the Luapula river on the common border ; Zaïre claimed that the Zambians had strayed into its territory . |
| 18 | In one case , a 36-year-old man was imprisoned for four years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old craft teacher after he had discovered that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , while an allegedly brutal husband was shot dead by the wife 's father after she ‘ fell into a nightmare of crime , violence and bizarre sex ’ . |
| 19 | But she returned and eventually her husband was shot dead by her father . |
| 20 | A woman whose husband was shot dead is to get compensation , even though the people charged with the killing were cleared . |
| 21 | In Medellin , two employees of the El Espectador newspaper were shot dead by gunmen . |
| 22 | On May 18 a Byelorussian policeman was shot dead by Lithuanian personnel at a customs post on the Byelorussia-Lithuania border . |
| 23 | Sendero 's immediate retaliation following the arrests was not as great as feared , but a policeman was shot dead in Lima on Sept. 14 and five civilians were wounded in two explosions . |
| 24 | An army officer was killed by an ETA car bomb in Salamanca on Sept. 2 ; an off-duty policeman was shot dead in San Sebastián on Sept. 13 ; and a local policeman in Baracaldo near Bilbao , who had once been imprisoned for providing an ETA unit with accommodation , was killed on Oct. 21 apparently by the premature explosion of a bomb which he was handling . |
| 25 | A policeman was shot dead on Nov. 22 on the university campus in Istanbul , apparently by the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Left ( Dev Sol ) . |
| 26 | One UNO activist was shot dead by police on Feb. 18 in the last rally of the campaign . |
| 27 | Last month a soldier 's wife was shot dead near Dortmund . |
| 28 | THE leaders of Mogadishu 's two warring factions united in a peace move yesterday soon after a Somali was shot dead by US Marines . |
| 29 | A TWO-year-old toddler was shot dead by his three-year-old friend at a barbecue party . |
| 30 | A man asked police to guard his South African home while he was away , but on return at night was shot dead in mistake for a burglar . |