Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] kill [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small took out a knife and skinned the lambs : bone and sinew were mangled behind their necks , and there was much blood , showing that the lambs had been killed by foxes , rather than taken as carrion by crows . |
| 2 | By I7 October 1983 six marines had been killed by snipers but Reagan claimed that their presence in the Lebanon was ‘ vitally important to the security of the United States and the Western world ’ . |
| 3 | Human rights activists in Cameroon were quoted on April 25 as saying that up to 48 people had been killed in demonstrations and that 58 detained students might also have died . |
| 4 | Wijeratne said that 35 people had been killed in attacks on July 24-25 on villages near Medawachchiya in the north and Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee in the east . |
| 5 | By contrast , a group representing European human rights organizations which had returned from a 12-day visit to Burundi , maintained the same day that at least 3,000 people had been killed in reprisals by the army and paramilitary groups after the rebellion . |
| 6 | He made counter-accusations that 42,000 Bosnian Serbs were being held as detainees , in 21 camps , by the Bosnian Croats and Moslems , and that over 6,000 Bosnian Serb civilians had been killed as detainees . |
| 7 | On April 9 the DPK claimed that at least 150 civilians had been killed by mines while fleeing towards the Turkish and Iranian borders . |
| 8 | The State of Emergency Governor for the south-eastern region , Unal Erkan , told other regional governors meeting in Batman on June 17 that in the last 40 days 60 soldiers and some 180 civilians had been killed in clashes . |
| 9 | Figures published in the Independent of Nov. 28 stated that 13 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli forces during November ( compared with six in November 1991 ) , one Israeli had been killed by Palestinians ( as in November 1991 ) and four " collaborators " had been killed by Palestinians ( compared with six ) . |
| 10 | Between January and April it was estimated that 563 government soldiers had been killed in clashes with the guerrillas . |
| 11 | On Nov. 24 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) denied as " fabricated " a claim broadcast by the Voice of America ( VOA ) earlier that day , that eight Iraqi schoolchildren had been killed by members of the Kuwaiti resistance to avenge the deaths of Kuwaiti children . |