Example sentences of "was shoot down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 2 | In 1944 our Lancaster of 57 Sqn , piloted by Flt Lt Bulcraig was shot down on a raid on Revigny , Northern France , killing the pilot , Bomb Aimer Fg Off Robson , Flt Eng Sgt Gale and W/Op Sgt Loughlin . |
| 3 | D.F.C. , was shot down on 13 April 1941 by a Bf109E , and forced to ditch into the sea . |
| 4 | Azerbaijani villages came under attack from Armenian forces , and a helicopter was shot down on April 11 . |
| 5 | Bryn was shot down on a bombing raid in 1944 and the Belgian resistance smuggled him to safety in a coffin . |
| 6 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 7 | An Iranian airliner was shot down over the Gulf by a missile from a US cruiser in 1988 , killing 290 people . |
| 8 | Carlisle Crown Court was told that the fighter ace — who was shot down over Italy — was spotted by police while driving to see a sick friend . |
| 9 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 10 | An American U2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot , Gary Powers , captured . |
| 11 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 12 | As a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain , he was shot down over Ashford , Kent , on 4 September 1940 and died two days later , sixteen months before the birth of his wife Doris 's son , Michael . |
| 13 | The aircraft was shot down over Norway on February 9 , 1945 and salvaged from underwater . |
| 14 | His Hurricane was shot down over Kent during the Battle of |
| 15 | ATTEMPTING to unravel the fate of a Luftwaffe bomber that was shot down during 1940 . |
| 16 | Shortly after joining No 10 Squadron he was shot down during an attack on the Tirpitz at Aasfjord near Trondheim in Norway . |
| 17 | Freddie Crewe , of Maidstone , who left the RAF as a squadron leader in 1962 , flew Hurricanes and Spitfires in the war and was shot down near Brest on 3 August 1943 . |
| 18 | When a German ‘ plane was shot down near Roxton the sergeant navigator who survived was brought in as a patient and I assisted with his reception . |
| 19 | An Azerbaijani civilian helicopter was shot down near Shusha on Jan. 28 , killing an estimated 40 people and prompting a major Azerbaijani offensive against Stepanakert on Jan. 31 . |
| 20 | On March 12 a civilian helicopter transporting 18 Georgian National Guards was shot down near Zugdidi and its occupants taken hostage . |
| 21 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 22 | A fortnight after Pedro 's plane plunged flaming into the sea , Angel was shot down behind British lines and escaped with a smashed kneecap and concussion . |
| 23 | The government attributed the crash to a technical fault , but foreign diplomats speculate that the helicopter was shot down by a Blowpipe . |
| 24 | A supply aircraft , carrying weapons to the contras , was shot down by the Sandinistas at the beginning of October 1986 ; and on November 3rd a Lebanese magazine , Al-Shiraa , broke the story of American dealings with Iran . |
| 25 | This would have brought Mr Bush into the case as his Vice-Presidential office was the first in Washington to be contacted from Central America when an aircraft was shot down by the Sandinistas . |
| 26 | A fourth was shot down by concentrated anti-aircraft fire . |
| 27 | It happened twice at Bourn to my knowledge — once the fighter was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and the other time the rear gunner in the Lancaster was killed . |
| 28 | A Bf110D night fighter of the newly arrived 1/NJG 3 was lost over the island on 17th but it is uncertain whether this fell to the A.A. guns or was shot down by Plt.Off . |
| 29 | Erich M¨ller , was shot down by A.A. fire , the other ( KB+NC ) , piloted by the Staffel Kapitan , Oblt . |
| 30 | Rudolf Gunther , was shot down by fighters , this probably the ‘ Do215 ’ claimed jointly by Rippon , Pain and Ayre . |