Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 3 | Mr Ahtisaari said that only 315 people were then found to be unaccounted for , because the mission 's list contained duplications , vague identifications , names of people who have been released and repatriated , names of people never detained and some who have been reported dead . |
| 4 | He said a second person , who had been reported dead , had in fact been brought into the hospital alive and was currently undergoing treatment . |
| 5 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 6 | The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive . |
| 7 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 8 | ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms . |
| 9 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in . |
| 10 | Two Israeli reservists are shot dead in Gaza City . |
| 11 | Seven Gaza labourers are shot dead by a deranged Israeli gunman at Rishon Le Zion ; the killings prompt some of the most intense rioting of the intifada . |
| 12 | All the surrendering Germans in this instance had been shot dead by the Commandos . |
| 13 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 14 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Chata , their chief , had been shot dead by a bank guard in Wyoming during an attempted hold-up . |
| 17 | A Shia cleric , an enemy of the regime , had been shot dead in a hotel lobby in Khartoum . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | In the course of the journey one of them , an RAF pilot , had been shot dead trying to jump out of the train in an attempt to reach an Italian fighter plane on an airfield and fly it to Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | Micky Banks had been shot dead on stage . |
| 22 | Some have been shot dead at their office desks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Up to 24 demonstrators had been shot dead and another 30 had been wounded , while seven others had later been executed . |
| 25 | Witnesses , however , claimed that the six had been shot dead by security forces . |
| 26 | It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | In October it was reported that Max Veillard , a French mercenary and adviser to Taki wanted for his part in the August coup attempt , had been shot dead by police . |