Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] kill [prep] an [noun] " 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 | His eldest brother and his wife had been killed in an earthquake over the mountains there on the other side of the Peloponnesus . |
| 3 | On Dec. 29 , 1989 , the government announced that the new leader of the JVP 's military wing , the Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya ( DJV ) , Saman Piyasiri Fernando , had been killed in an exchange of gunfire after being arrested and leading police officers to a house used as a JVP headquarters in Colombo . |
| 4 | A mother and her three babies had been killed in an attack on a bus in Israel . |
| 5 | On March 13 there were reports that six militiamen had been killed in an attack on a military detachment . |
| 6 | On the eve of the anniversary three police officers and a gunman had been killed in an attack by an unnamed left-wing organization on the home of the metropolitan area mayor , Luis Pareto . |
| 7 | Spike had been killed in an attack by one of the shapechangers . |
| 8 | Alarm was followed by confusion after the office of the exiled former president , Abolhassan Bani-Sadr , announced that 20 people had been killed in an explosion at the Tehran residence of Mr Khamenei . |
| 9 | Sanjurjo had been killed in an air accident on 20 July , on his way to Pamplona to assume the leadership of the rising . |
| 10 | On March 7 , Colombian television reported that five policeman had been killed in an FARC attack on a police garrison in El Retorno in the San José del Guaviare municipality . |
| 11 | It had still barely sunk in that just over two weeks ago her mother and her stepfather had been killed in an accident . |
| 12 | A 14,000-km " unity march " — ekta yatra — launched by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) [ see p. 38682 ] , ended in Srinigar on Jan. 26 ( Republic Day ) with reports that at least 30 people had been killed in an upsurge of violence attributed to Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 13 | The Voice of Israel radio reported on April 22 that two " terrorists " had been killed by an IDF unit the previous evening after infiltrating northern Galilee . |
| 14 | A car bomb in Bilbao on Jan. 8 injured a woman and her daughter ; two other members of the same family , which was apparently involved in drug trafficking , had been killed by an ETA car bomb in 1989 . |