Example sentences of "[been] killed " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April AI called on the Mauritanian Government to investigate reports that up to 200 political prisoners had died or been killed in military or police custody — some executed without trial and many others as a result of torture . |
| 2 | Reporting back after a two-week visit to Kuwait , an AI fact-finding team said scores of victims had been killed and hundreds more had been arbitrarily arrested , many brutally tortured by Kuwaiti armed forces and members of ‘ resistance ’ groups since 26 February . |
| 3 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
| 4 | A bride has been killed . |
| 5 | An unnamed man had been killed and his body dumped in a pond in a park . |
| 6 | Since 1981 at least 50 judges and about 170 judicial employees have been killed , mainly by cartel hit squads . |
| 7 | Inside the man-made cavern , located 100ft up the side of a cliff , an archaeological survey team found a hastily-written message recording that ‘ Joezer ( the priest ) has just been killed ( or wounded ) . |
| 8 | A speculative report in the daily Critica said Major Moises Giroldi , the head of the elite Urraca battalion who spearheaded the coup attempt , had been killed in the dawn attack on the Defence Forces Headquarters . |
| 9 | The majority of victims were Jews but they were not alone — as many as 4,000 gypsies may have been killed there in one session . |
| 10 | He could have been killed . |
| 11 | Relatively few members of the public have been killed in Britain by industrial accidents in recent years . |
| 12 | THE JULIE WARD inquest ended yesterday with counsel for the Kenyan state still maintaining she might have committed suicide or been killed by animals . |
| 13 | In the past year-and-a-half , 2,500 Colombians have been killed by such groups and a further 250 have disappeared after being detained by security forces , according to Amnesty . |
| 14 | Some had been killed outright by flying shrapnel , others had been badly wounded and had died slowly . |
| 15 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 16 | The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away . |
| 17 | He had been killed instantly along with two other Commandos who were close by at the time , their remains scattered through the trees . |
| 18 | Surely the old Frenchman and his family have n't been killed ! |
| 19 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 20 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 21 | In the course of eight months 20 per cent of all horses in the country had been killed . |
| 22 | Ernest had been killed in 1940 in an aircraft accident when on duty as a Drogue Operator . |
| 23 | You can imagine my surprise when looking around the Lancaster hangar at the display boards , I came across a copy of Flt Lt Bulcraig 's DFM citation , with a typed caption stating that our pilot had been killed with all his crew ! |
| 24 | But the stench of diesel oil gave away the fact that the fish had not been killed by the bad weather . |
| 25 | In several African and South American states there have been far more serious incidents in which large numbers of people have been killed . |
| 26 | Thank God , it was n't he who had to break the news to the woman that her husband and her daughter had both been killed in the car crash that had fractured her skull . |
| 27 | It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe 's regaining consciousness . |
| 28 | He paused and with a shifty , fidgety look , said , ‘ D' you know what Hatton 'd have done that Saturday if he had n't been killed ? |
| 29 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 30 | In the course of this work eighteen operators have been killed . |