Example sentences of "kill [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to The Times of April 12 , the DPK claimed that 50 people had been killed during an attack by government troops on a refugee centre near Halabja on the Iranian border . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the International Committeee of the Red Cross announced on July 13 that two of its workers had been killed during an armed ambush in Paktia province . |
| 3 | Among 43 people reported killed during an LTTE ambush in the eastern district of Amparai on Nov. 3 were 23 servicemen . |
| 4 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 5 | Tony Alliss was killed during an argument over a boundary fence near to his home in Kings Stanley near Stroud . |
| 6 | Tony Alliss was killed during an argument over a boundary fence near to his home in Kings Stanley near Stroud . |
| 7 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 8 | Reports on Aug. 2 said that hundreds of people were killed after an explosion at an arms depot in Kabul thought to have been triggered by rockets fired by mujaheddin . |
| 9 | ‘ Killed with an axe … ’ |
| 10 | A 12-YEAR-OLD girl was killed with an axe and a woman speared to death in an attack on a Cambodian village in which eight Vietnamese were killed , United Nations investigators said yesterday . |
| 11 | As a rich , forceful young man , Keller had been earmarked as a likely future president , even before Mullegg was killed in an aircrash in 1958 . |
| 12 | ‘ When seven miners were killed in an accident at their McClure No.1 mine in 1983 , Pittston was fined $47,500 , ’ Gene tells us , ‘ and they fine us $30 million for demonstrating peacefully in defence of our communities . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Gandhi 's eldest son Sanjay , later killed in an aeroplane crash in 1980 , helped her in the running — and the destruction — of the party . |
| 14 | A married woman in her forties has her husband killed in an accident . |
| 15 | A mother and her three babies had been killed in an attack on a bus in Israel . |
| 16 | Emile Verhaeren , the Belgian poet who had vividly chronicled the impact of the railways on the countryside , was killed in an accident at Rouen Station in 1916 . |
| 17 | Sadly , however , the return tip was marred by the death of two members of the Rhodesian patrol , killed in an attack by two Blenheims , in spite of their having spread out the correct air recognition signals . |
| 18 | After a few months however , Mr Wilson had been recalled to London as the head of his company had been tragically killed in an automobile accident . |
| 19 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 20 | It must have been killed in an avalanche or died in a blizzard earlier in the winter . |
| 21 | There had been a moment 's silence and then Alice had said : ‘ My father died , killed in an accident when I was fifteen . ’ |
| 22 | While they were in the travelling coach , she put on an outward appearance of sadness for a loyal employee , killed in an attempt to save his master 's horse . |
| 23 | Suicide was the biggest cause of death , but the homeless are also 150 times more likely to be killed in an assault . |
| 24 | They were killed in an accident just before I was married — Peter was my father 's friend . ’ |
| 25 | Heston succeeds Senator John Tower , who was tragically killed in an air crash in Brunswick , Georgia , April 5 . |
| 26 | TRAGIC businessman Bob Watts was killed in an air crash days after becoming a grandad , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 27 | A July 1975 report in a pro-government newspaper claimed that Jacqueline Droully was among 119 people killed in an armed confrontation between left-wing extremists in Argentina . |
| 28 | It is , of course , not the place , duty or even wish of the investigators to frustrate the administration of justice in respect of proper awards for damages but some of the awards , particularly in the USA , have got out of proportion , particularly when it comes to product liability cases brought by the representatives of dependants of those killed in an accident . |
| 29 | Meanwhile four policemen were killed in an ambush in Soweto . |
| 30 | Could have done it , too , only when he was about a third of the way through , he was killed in an automobile accident . |