Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] [vb pp] dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential for violence during Mr Mandela 's visit was illustrated when he cancelled a visit to a township outside Ladysmith yesterday after an ANC supporter in the township had been shot dead and another seriously wounded by unknown gunmen . |
| 2 | Gunmen opened fire , killing 14 occupants of the bus , including a Dane , Rasmussen Testerto , described in press reports as the first Western tourist to fall victim to the fighting in Sri Lanka ; a Japanese tourist had been shot dead in 1985 . |
| 3 | For Angela Allen had to abandon her vigil at the bedside of 10-month-old Laura in a Birmingham hospital to return to her St Helens home where her husband had been found dead in bed . |
| 4 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 5 | Di Leonardo 's personal secretary had issued a statement shortly after midday , a masterpiece of prolixity that took about five minutes to say that Ruggiero Miletti had been found dead and that another statement would be issued in due course . |
| 6 | Edwin Garland had been found dead by his niece at two o'clock on the Saturday . |
| 7 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 23 , quoting the Reuters news agency , said that more than 1,500 people had been shot dead since 1986 in Karachi alone . |
| 8 | The next day the news was all over Fontanellato that the woman had been found dead with a rope round her neck . |
| 9 | She wanted details about Pascoe but he offered only that the man had been found dead at home . |
| 10 | Though critical of the fact that four civilians had been shot dead without conceivable justification , the document generally endorsed the Army 's version of events and , in the press view , completely exonerated the paratroops ( Curtis , 1984:50 ) . |
| 11 | Other reports stated that 41 Hawiye civilians had been shot dead following the Army takeover of the town of Adado from United Somali Congress guerrillas . |
| 12 | Up to 24 demonstrators had been shot dead and another 30 had been wounded , while seven others had later been executed . |
| 13 | Bull had been shot dead in Brussels on March 22 , 1990 , and according to some reports Mossad , the Israeli secret service , had been involved in the assassination . |
| 14 | All the surrendering Germans in this instance had been shot dead by the Commandos . |
| 15 | Micky Banks had been shot dead on stage . |
| 16 | In her shocked silence he told her Pascoe had been found dead that morning but no one could get details . |
| 17 | The Ministry of the Interior announced on Oct. 30 that eight members of the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , arrested on Oct. 27 in possession of arms and forged documents , were responsible for the assassination ; two others had been shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 18 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 19 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 20 | The next morning , after Sir Thomas had been discovered dead , Brampton 's corpse was found swinging from a beam up in the garret . |
| 21 | They ran back and found Alice had been struck dead by lighting . |
| 22 | Two Irish policemen had been shot dead at Soloheadbeg last Tuesday by fellow Irishmen : it looked as if Joseph Hyde 's prediction about Civil War might become a reality all too soon . |