Example sentences of "was killed by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an accident in which a pilot was killed by a strike , the remains of the aircraft showed the true potential power of nature . |
| 2 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 3 | That same evening , two hours later , he was killed by a German mortar bomb that had exploded directly on his slit trench . |
| 4 | Finally , Foucauld was killed by a marauding band which was unaware of his name and reputation . |
| 5 | In October 1975 a Pakistani boy of fifteen was killed by a gang of white boys at a bus stop . |
| 6 | Deutsche Bank has named Hilmar Kopper as chief executive , replacing Alfred Herrhausen , who was killed by a terrorist car bomb a fortnight ago .. |
| 7 | Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett , 43 , was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we both know that the man you are gradually reducing to cat 's meat was killed by a fall from scaffolding . |
| 9 | It was here that the wife of Prince Windischgrätz was killed by a stray bullet and this caused the prince to react with unnecessary violence against the protesters . |
| 10 | Nobody was killed by a panicked deer or a stray arrow to spoil her happiness . |
| 11 | The Song of Roland is based , very remotely , on fact : a Breton count of that name was killed by a Basque ambush when Charlemagne was retreating after his quite unsuccessful Spanish campaign of 778 . |
| 12 | ‘ I found the journalist but the day he was going to talk to me he was killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 13 | Vladimir Felzmann , youth officer in the diocese of Westminster , and Gordon Wilson , remembered for his words spoken after his daughter Marie was killed by a bomb blast at Enniskillen in 1987 . |
| 14 | Ricks ' talk features a brilliant analysis of Dylan 's 1964 song , The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll , which tells the story of a woman who was killed by a rich young man , William ‘ Zanzinger ’ . |
| 15 | Bloodstains leading to the House gallery , reportedly left in 1890 when Representative William Taulbee ( Dem , Kentucky ) was killed by a jealous husband , can not be scrubbed out . |
| 16 | A GRANDFATHER was killed by a single punch as he tried to stop a gang of drunken teenagers ripping up his garden fence while he hosted a family barbecue . |
| 17 | He 'd play last across with the trains , no wonder he was killed by a train , he had many near misses , he always appears on the anniversary of his death and you would see the whole incident in startling detail . ’ |
| 18 | The figures come as a 33,000-signature petition is sent to the Home Office by Carole Whittingham of Rastrick , whose 27-year-old son Stephen was killed by a stolen car . |
| 19 | In Grace Abounding nothing is said about his life as a soldier except that it was once preserved by the mercy of God when another man took his place as sentinel during a siege and was killed by a musket bullet . |
| 20 | A SNAKE handler who set up a group to dispel people 's fear of the reptiles was killed by a bite from his Egyptian cobra . |
| 21 | POLICE launched an inquiry yesterday after a man was killed by a patrol car . |
| 22 | ‘ Sandra Riverton was killed by a rope round her neck . |
| 23 | But three — and the Czech liberal was killed by a bomb — is too much . |
| 24 | The Gotobeds were bad owners , you see ; our dad was killed by a rock fall that would never have happened , Mr Evans says , if they 'd taken proper safety precautions . |
| 25 | A few years ago the cousin of a Sumatran friend of ours was killed by a singularly persistent elephant . |
| 26 | ‘ Susan was killed by a maniac . |
| 27 | — Last November , while walking down a street in San Salvador , David Blundy , the Sunday Correspondent 's American correspondent , was killed by a sniper . |
| 28 | When his battalion moved south to take part in the battle of Loos , Sorley commanded an attack on two trenches known as the Hairpin , south of the Hohenzollern redoubt , and was killed by a sniper 13 October 1915 . |
| 29 | The newly created earl volunteered for service in the royal fleet , and was killed by a cannon shot in the first battle , off Lowestoft on 3 June . |
| 30 | ‘ The police think she was killed by a stranger while walking through the harbour , and dumped in the water . |