Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] dead in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A father of five has been shot dead in Ulster . |
| 2 | A lorry driver has been shot dead in his cab in Ulster . |
| 3 | When best-selling author Max Telligan 's secretary , Liz , and his about-to-be-ex-wife Harriet , read that he has been found dead in Munich , they are stunned . |
| 4 | LLOYD 'S Name Margaret Jones , 55 , who stood to lose £200,000 , has been found dead in her fume-filled car near her home at Parkhill , South Wales . |
| 5 | Ian Spiro , the businessman wanted for questioning after his wife and children were found murdered , has been found dead in the California desert . |
| 6 | A MAN has been found dead in a police cell at Greenock , Strathclyde Police said last night . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in . |
| 9 | A Shia cleric , an enemy of the regime , had been shot dead in a hotel lobby in Khartoum . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gunmen opened fire , killing 14 occupants of the bus , including a Dane , Rasmussen Testerto , described in press reports as the first Western tourist to fall victim to the fighting in Sri Lanka ; a Japanese tourist had been shot dead in 1985 . |
| 13 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 14 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 15 | For Angela Allen had to abandon her vigil at the bedside of 10-month-old Laura in a Birmingham hospital to return to her St Helens home where her husband had been found dead in bed . |
| 16 | After all , several had been found dead in his house . |
| 17 | Four men suspected of IRA terrorism have been shot dead in an SAS ambush in Ulster . |
| 18 | Some news in brief now — two men have been found dead in Glasgow in separate incidents . |
| 19 | Two men have been found dead in Glasgow in separate incidents . |
| 20 | Four birds of a previously unknown species have been found dead in a bird trader 's cage in Tanzania . |
| 21 | This time poor Allingham 's been found dead in his chamber , with not a mark on his body . |