Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] be kill [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 2 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 3 | Sanjurjo had been killed in an air accident on 20 July , on his way to Pamplona to assume the leadership of the rising . |
| 4 | It was almost another fortnight before the War Office confirmed that Acting Sergeant John Carrow had been killed in action . |
| 5 | They had joined up together in ‘ 39 and , when Simon had been killed at Alamein , Bert had died with him in spirit . |
| 6 | Ernest had been killed in 1940 in an aircraft accident when on duty as a Drogue Operator . |
| 7 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 8 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 9 | The ruling Duke Waifer had been killed in the war with Pepin , but his father , Hunold , came out of retirement in a monastery to lead the revolt . |
| 10 | The verdict of that post-mortem was that Reverend Marr had been killed at about midnight on Friday . |
| 11 | Don Roberto had been killed with a similar knife to the one Trent carried . |
| 12 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 13 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 14 | Three years ago — the day after Under Secretary Lehmann had been killed in the House by Tolonen — he had summoned the leaders of the House before him , and there , in the Purple Forbidden City where they had murdered his son , had granted them concessions , amongst them permission to build a generation starship . |
| 15 | Rufus had been killed on 2 August , whether by conspiracy or accident will never be resolved . |
| 16 | Before long , Maudie had a baby — and soon after that , a telegram arrived saying that Arnold had been killed in action . |
| 17 | Adam was in Room 17 , little knowing that this was where the Russian agent Hans Putiloff had been killed in the early days of this affair . |
| 18 | She burst into tears and told me that Charlie had been killed on the Western Front . |
| 19 | It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe 's regaining consciousness . |
| 20 | Uncle John had been killed in the War . |