Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [vb pp] dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Walker was found dead in March at his London flat . |
| 2 | It was in the year of Easy Rider that Nick Adams was found dead . |
| 3 | But however hard she tries , Joan will never forget February 6 , 1971 when Bobby was shot dead in hate-filled Belfast . |
| 4 | The search for David Ashworth began after pub licensee Denise Johnstone was found dead yesterday morning in the living quarters of the Lion Pub in Moorfields , Liverpool . |
| 5 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
| 6 | Skipper Paul Masters , 24 , his cousin David Masters , 24 and crew member Peter Hope were presumed dead when the wrecked hull of the 27ft Peganina was found within sight of the harbour at Padstow , Cornwall . |
| 7 | Bouquets of flowers mark the spot where Mr Reynolds was shot dead exactly a week ago . |
| 8 | Geoffrey Dudgeon , 35 — on the run from a Leicester jail when James Doy was shot dead last week in Rotherham — was reported to have been seen in Southampton . |
| 9 | Paula Gilfoyle was found dead at the couple 's home in Grafton Drive on June 4 last year two weeks before she was due to give birth to their first child . |
| 10 | Exactly a month later ‘ Good Samaritan ’ Philomena Hanna was shot dead in the Springfield Road chemist 's shop where she worked . |
| 11 | Roman Catholic mother-of-four Teresa Dowds de Mogollon was shot dead in her north Belfast home and Catholic delivery man Jim Bell was killed outside an ice-cream factory in the east of the city . |
| 12 | Three ethnic Albanians and a Macedonian were shot dead by police and 23 were injured in riots in Skopje on Nov. 6 . |
| 13 | Tony Dobson was found dead in the yard at Roundhill Farm , Roundhill Road , near Hurworth , where he often used steam equipment to clean the Volvo articulated lorry . |
| 14 | Mr Goult was found dead in an armchair at his ground floor flat in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , on Saturday afternoon . |
| 15 | Mrs Jarrett was certified dead at 6.35 p.m. on Saturday , 5 October , and news of the tragedy spread quickly around the estate during the evening . |
| 16 | And twenty-four year old Robert Dickson from Dormonside Road was found dead by friends in a house in Whinhill Road . |
| 17 | Baby Louis was found dead at the family 's home in Wantage , Oxon , on Tuesday . |
| 18 | BRITISH missionary Peter Jackson was shot dead trying to stop cattle rustlers raiding a remote African church , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 19 | Mr Spiro was found dead from cyanide poisoning in his truck three days after the November 6 massacre . |
| 20 | Ms Simpkins was found dead last May in the living room of her house in Dryden Street in Swindon . |
| 21 | Peter and Gwenda Dixon from Witney were shot dead on a coastal path in Pembrokeshire in 1989 . |
| 22 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 23 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 24 | Twenty-one-year-old Fred Hampton was shot dead . |
| 25 | Marco Tulio Hernández , 28 , a member of the Honduran Human Rights Defence Committee and of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees in Honduras was shot dead in San Pedro Sula on July 22 ; the military was widely believed to be responsible . |
| 26 | Stephen Jarvis was found dead after his unmarried mother , Natalie Weller , of Thornhill , Southampton , Hampshire , left him in the care of a teenage babysitter . |
| 27 | Special Constable Glenn Goodman was shot dead and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded . |
| 28 | Craig was shot dead in 1988 in an East Belfast pub on the orders of a new hardline leadership out to clean up the gang 's image . |
| 29 | Mr Buttell was certified dead at the scene before his body was freed by firefighters . |
| 30 | Twenty seven year old James Jack was found dead at his home in Stirlingfauld Place last night . |