Example sentences of "[vb pp] dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sixty civilians were reported dead and up to 1,000 wounded . |
| 3 | ‘ Eric ’ Taylor , Malta 's current leading ‘ ace ’ with over seven victories , was last seen on the tail of a Stuka with a Bf109E on his own tail ; he did not return either , and was reported dead when his ‘ Mae West ’ was washed ashore with a cannon shell hole in the centre of the chest . |
| 4 | On July 1st , 1916-the first day of the Battle of the Somme — 20,000 men were reported dead or missing and another 35,000 wounded . |
| 5 | Five more people were reported dead in Havana , Cuba , after the storm lashed the island . |
| 6 | In Kabul , more than 600 people were reported dead as Afghan factions fought for control of the capital . |
| 7 | He said a second person , who had been reported dead , had in fact been brought into the hospital alive and was currently undergoing treatment . |
| 8 | Troops were deployed and a curfew imposed as the unrest continued into the third day ; at the end of this time 26 people were reported dead and over 500 had been arrested . |
| 9 | Ecuador had 97 dead and 3,861 infected ; Colombia had two dead and 134 infected , and Chile had one person reported dead and 15 people infected . |
| 10 | At least 14 people were reported dead after violence erupted during polling in local elections in the Punjab on Dec. 29 . |
| 11 | Riots , including indiscriminate shooting and looting , were reported in Kigali and in the western towns of Gisenye and Ruhengeri , and a total of 35 people were reported dead . |
| 12 | The fact was that he , the main proponent of the scientific method , was becoming increasingly frightened by a superstition society had considered dead before he was born . |
| 13 | Cos I 'm sat dead . |
| 14 | For only that morning , she had read in the paper a case of a man , and not an old man , who had dropped dead in the street of some heart complaint . |
| 15 | Dropped dead at the Royal Norfolk show last month . |
| 16 | It 's a good thing I 'm very strong — otherwise I might have dropped dead , like an over-worked horse , after a week of it . |
| 17 | Er , hello there , my name 's Mike , well let's go over to the weather with Winsy , no Winsy , oh Rita 's dropped dead , she 's jumped off a cliff we think , we think |
| 18 | They 'd got her absolutely terrified I mean she , she could have dropped dead with sheer terror . |
| 19 | I 'd say I 'd not be caught dead in them they were |
| 20 | Although the proceedings are always enlivened by Diana 's presence , no true Lorenzo-goer would ever be caught dead owning up to being in awe of her . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some were shot dead when thousands of women , protesting against the killings , tried to march on the President 's residence . |
| 23 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
| 24 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 25 | The US Senator Jesse Helms said in Washington yesterday he had reports from Panama that General Noriega had personally shot dead Major Giroldi , the commander of the ‘ Urraca ’ company charged with defending the Defence Force headquarters from where the uprising was launched . |
| 26 | Police were sent to arrest him on a charge of attempted murder , but in the ensuing melee the Rajah was shot dead . |
| 27 | In Medellin , two employees of the El Espectador newspaper were shot dead by gunmen . |
| 28 | Olof Palme was shot dead on a Stockholm street on 28 February 1986 . |
| 29 | On Wednesday night a 52-year-old Baptist minister was shot dead by robbers in the vestibule of his Bedford Stuyvesant church . |
| 30 | Last month a soldier 's wife was shot dead near Dortmund . |