Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] kill [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the remaining local independent media sources , 20 civilians had been killed during August by the military . |
| 2 | Revelation came and sat in the shade of Masquerade 's bows where she plucked two chickens that I suspected had been killed in honour of my return to the island . |
| 3 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 4 | His elder son had been killed in Mesopotamia in the Great War and with his younger son he had little in common . |
| 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 | Joseph Behidi , a lawyer and LDHT vice-president , had been killed in N'Djamena on Feb. 16 , in an attack which LDHT sources attributed to two soldiers of Déby 's Zaghawa clan . |
| 7 | Reports on April 25 had claimed that up to 130 people , mainly Christians , had been killed in riots in Bauchi and other mainly Moslem northern states in places where Shi'ites were demanding the imposition of Moslem law . |
| 8 | The agency said that 15 relief workers had been killed in Ethiopia in the previous seven months . |
| 9 | In July 1987 some 400 anti-Western demonstrators , mainly Iranian , had been killed in Mecca in clashes with the security forces [ see p. 35676-77 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The rioters , protesting against vegetable shortages , had been killed in clashes with the Revolutionary Guards , who arrested 150 people . |
| 12 | Between January and April it was estimated that 563 government soldiers had been killed in clashes with the guerrillas . |
| 13 | Croatian Foreign Minister Zvonimir Separovic said in a letter to EC foreign ministers on Oct. 27 that some 5,000 people had been killed in Croatia since the beginning of July . |
| 14 | Personifying , as he did , the local , all-powerful gentry of the day , Henry was wont to indulge in the occasional deflowering of local maidens , and it was strongly rumoured that a serving girl at Lambourn Palace had been killed by Hippisley in a fit of temper . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Local ANC members claimed that he had been killed by members of the Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) who were training Inkatha youths locally . |
| 17 | The ‘ indulgent Minister/person ’ referred to was the Curate of the parish kirk and the ‘ true messenger of Jesus Christ ’ was Richard Cameron , a leading Covenanter who , with 8 followers , had been killed by Dragoons on Airds Moss in May , 1680 . |