Example sentences of "he [was/were] kill [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are he was killed for the money he was carrying . |
| 2 | He was killed for just a small amount of money . |
| 3 | ‘ He was killed on Highway 66 . |
| 4 | He was killed on a pedestrian crossing when Clara was sixteen . |
| 5 | Ecgfrith , his successor , is given a reign of fifteen years in the Northumbrian regnal list , but Bede says that he was killed on 20 May 685 in his fifteenth year ( HE IV , 24 ) , and that Ecgfrith was indeed in his fifteenth year in 685 is confirmed by the inscription at Jarrow which records the dedication of the church on 23 April ( which fell on a Sunday in 685 ) , a month before his death , in his fifteenth year . |
| 6 | His ineptitude at mathematics delayed his commission , which was finally granted on the day he was killed on an operational flight . |
| 7 | Liam , who was not with his father when he was killed on Thursday , said he was not sure where he had been going . |
| 8 | He was killed with 16 comrades from 2 Para during the storming of Goose Green . |
| 9 | In 1030 he was killed at the battle of Stiklestad ( near Trondheim ) by his own people , and Cnut then put his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Swegen in charge there . |
| 10 | In 524 he attacked Godomar , in alliance with the Ostrogoths , but he was killed at Vézeronce . |
| 11 | He was killed at Shoreham in an experimental microlite machine . |
| 12 | He was killed during the night of 20 October 1941 , when the Wellington bomber he was piloting crashed in Chipping Warden , Northamptonshire . |
| 13 | If so he can not have been there long , for in 1589 he was killed under somewhat suspicious circumstances . |
| 14 | That same evening , two hours later , he was killed by a German mortar bomb that had exploded directly on his slit trench . |
| 15 | ‘ I found the journalist but the day he was going to talk to me he was killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | He was killed by the Communists . |
| 18 | His force was ambushed a little short of its objective and he was killed by the French and their Indian allies . |
| 19 | ‘ But he was killed by Israeli commandos in Damascus . ’ |
| 20 | Once a virtuous king , whose subjects hailed him as a god , he was killed by his jealous brother Seth . |
| 21 | He was killed by the sniper . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe he was killed by the pressure he was under . |
| 23 | He was killed by that blow on the head — a thoroughly savage blow . |
| 24 | He was killed by an axe blow to the base of his skull as he walked through woods to the railway station in the settlement of Semkhoz on his way to conduct the early morning service at his church in the nearby village of Novaya Derevnya . |
| 25 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 26 | ‘ He was killed by assassins just like the bastards nearly murdered me at Le Coq d'Or ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'll tell them a geezer is lying there , and he was killed by you . ’ |
| 28 | He was killed by one of two men who jumped from this Blue Ford Sierra Estate car . |
| 29 | He says he was just starting out in life and they 're very bitter that he was killed by one person 's obsession for an obscene knife . |
| 30 | A Home office pathologist Professor Bernard Knight said he was killed by the effects of inhaling smoke . |