Example sentences of "[was/were] kill [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 2 | According to an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on April 2 , at least 25 OLF supporters were killed during a demonstration in Weter in western Ethiopia . |
| 3 | The death of 46 soldiers was confirmed by the government , which claimed also that the attack had been led by women cadres , that at least 25 LTTE rebels were killed in the raid , and that a further 100 were killed during a subsequent army assault on rebel camps near Iyakachchi . |
| 4 | A Nepalese member of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) and a Hezbollah fighter were killed during a clash on Nov. 12 near the villages of Kafra and Yatar , on the northern edge of the " security zone " ; three other UNIFIL members were wounded . |
| 5 | Budapest Radio said several people were killed at a demonstration in the Transylvanian town of Tirgu Mures yesterday . |
| 6 | On June 16 six students were killed on a college campus in Dhaka during a gun battle between rival groups loyal to the BNP and to the Awami League . |
| 7 | Two Albanians were killed aboard a boat which reached Otranto , Italy , on June 12 ; it had come under fire from an Albanian coastal patrol . |
| 8 | Internally , it was a different matter where ultra-nationalist rivals and critics of even temporary accommodation with the French , as well as those who were suspected of favouring them , were being liquidated in purges which were probably as bloody as most in Eastern Europe and on some occasions it seems the former were killed as a result of Franco-Vietminh collaboration . |
| 9 | Presumably A is being prosecuted for murder ; but the question does not actually say that A 's fellows were killed as a result of what he did . |
| 10 | According to a report by the Senate committee on violence and pacification which was monitoring acts of political violence carried out by the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) , the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amarú — MRTA ) , right-wing death squads and other extremist groups and also , in 1989 , links between rebel groups and drug traffickers , it was estimated that a total of 3,198 people were killed as a result of such activity in the course of 1989 , compared with 1,986 in 1988 . |
| 11 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |
| 12 | Inevitably , one night in the early years of the war , both he and his dog were killed by a passing train . |
| 13 | More than 200 people , mostly women , were killed by a fire in a Thai toy factory , the worst industrial fire in history . |
| 14 | On 21 December 1989 , at Lockerbie all 259 passengers and crew on a Pan Am jumbo going to New York were killed by a bomb . |
| 15 | As isolated assassinations of the police and security forces continued in Algiers and elsewhere , three people were killed by a bomb which exploded at Constantine university on May 6 . |
| 16 | Even lower percentages are estimated for Shorea ovalis ( Dipterocarpaceae ) in Malesia , where there was 83% abortion , possibly due to the failure of pollination , while 90% of the survivors were killed by a single insect predator species before being dropped . |
| 17 | A farmer is mounting a round-the-clock watch after seven of his sheep were killed by a dog . |
| 18 | The families of five young people who were killed by a reckless driver say they 're outraged over a decision to reduce his prison sentence . |
| 19 | Particularly terrible was the suffering of Franz Marc 's horses ; in one day alone , 7,000 died , and 97 were killed by a single shot from a French naval gun . |
| 20 | Hot on the Clapham accident , five passengers were killed in a collision at Purley ( south of Croydon ) , again involving two Southern Region electric multiple units . |
| 21 | The government said three soldiers were killed in a nearby village , and 41 guerrillas died in a retaliatory attack . |
| 22 | In contrast to the melodramatic historical memoirs there is a poignant moment when Suwelo faces the memory of his parents , who were killed in a car accident . |
| 23 | NINE rebels and a soldier were killed in a clash with Turkish security forces near the Syrian border , Ankara authorities said yesterday , adding claims that Kurdish separatists receive foreign support . |
| 24 | Weeks after 24 Vietnamese were killed in a riot at Sek Kong camp , the UN wants 25 per cent cuts on education , employment , health and recreation spending . |
| 25 | I remember the 1935 headlines when Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in a ‘ plane crash and when Mrs Dionne gave birth to quintuplets in northern Ontario . |
| 26 | They took several prisoners , two of whom were killed in a later skirmish . |
| 27 | In the same winter , six walkers were killed in a series of accidents , most involving simple slips but including one case of hypothermia . |
| 28 | The biggest single loss of life was suffered by the Army on August Bank Holiday Monday , 1979 , when 18 soldiers were killed in a double IRA bomb attack at Warrenpoint , County Down . |
| 29 | On the 29th , nine policemen were killed in a bomb attack on Haifa Police Headquarters . |
| 30 | At Clapham on 12 December 1988 , 35 people were killed in a triple train crash . |