Example sentences of "[was/were] killed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this day no one has accurately computed how many millions of people were killed under the rule of Lenin and Stalin . |
| 2 | However , eighteen people were killed during the year . |
| 3 | Indira Gandhi 's assassination was itself an act of revenge by her Sikh bodyguards , after hundreds of Sikhs were killed during the clearing of extremists from their Golden Temple in Amritsar . |
| 4 | ( A total of 79 people were killed during the 28 years of the wall 's existence , the last in February 1989 ; there were regularly about two escape attempts a week . ) |
| 5 | Two of its soldiers were killed during the final offensive against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein . |
| 6 | The construction of the tunnel was very difficult in the Victorian age , men were killed during the excavations , and the depth of 500ft below the surface at one point exposed numerous problems . |
| 7 | The couple will also visit Gloucester Valley where 94 British soldiers were killed during the Korean war . |
| 8 | Between 1981 and 1984 alone , 80,000 Mayans were killed during the army 's scorched-earth campaign in which 440 villages were razed . |
| 9 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 10 | Early reports suggested that between 100 and 200 people were killed during the invasion , including the Amir 's half-brother , Shaikh Fahd al-Ahmad al Sabah . |
| 11 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 12 | About 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed during the conflict and about 37,000 injured . |
| 13 | Compressed as the battle arena had become , losses suffered among the senior commanders were every bit as grievous as among the rank-and-file ; in one French division , three out of four full colonels were killed during the mid-March fighting . |
| 14 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 15 | The coxswain and the quartermaster were killed at the wheel , and Nigel Tibbets took the helm . |
| 16 | 1955 Eighty two spectators were killed at the Le Mans 24-hour race . |
| 17 | Only a few hundred were killed on the road each year ( about 4 per cent mortality ) , which , as the Table shows , is insignificant compared with the overall annual mortality rate of 50–60 per cent . |
| 18 | Christopher Tucker shouted into the kitchens asking if animals were killed on the premises . |
| 19 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 20 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 21 | Although there are around 13,000 hospital admissions in the UK annually due to playground accidents , fatalities are very rare , whereas in 1988 , 282 children were killed on the roads . |
| 22 | Two Ulster Defence Regiment men were killed on the Killylea road in Armagh . |
| 23 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 24 | Both women were killed on the M4 near Swindon in the early hours of saturday morning on their way back from a show . |
| 25 | Both women were killed on the M-four near Swindon when their car crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire . |
| 26 | But two of them , Rose Patterson and Dee Miller were killed on the M4 near Swindon at the weekend … |
| 27 | It was noted that both women were killed on the night of a full moon , as were Gore 's parents . |
| 28 | Thousands of these small fish were killed for the pearl trade . |
| 29 | A total of 255 servicemen were killed for the recapture of The Malvinas . |
| 30 | Opposition supporters were frequently harassed ; in February two CDNPP canvassers were killed near the eastern town of Bacau . |