Example sentences of "in revenge for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | INDIAN security forces use torture to ‘ deter ’ people from political activities and in revenge for the violence of armed opposition groups . |
| 2 | The statement claimed that the bombing was in revenge for the assassination of Musawi . |
| 3 | It 's likely that the decision to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 was made in Tehran , in revenge for the downing of an Iranian Airbus over the Persian Gulf by the USS Vincennes in 1988 , killing 290 civilians . |
| 4 | Having impetuously killed the English sheriff at Lanark — perhaps , according to a fifteenth-century minstrel , in revenge for the killing of his own wife by the English — and been proclaimed an outlaw , he fled into Ettrick forest to assemble a force of rebels against the domination of English governors and garrisons . |
| 5 | A caller from the IRO told a newspaper that the car-bomb had been in revenge for the killing by the Israeli airforce of Sheikh Abbas Musawi , of the Lebanese Hezbollah [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 6 | The attack was believed to have been in revenge for the killing by government militia of several Moslem farmers worshipping in a mosque in the neighbouring town of Pikit . |
| 7 | Even if the media did inflate the ‘ winter of discontent ’ , even if Callaghan was unlucky when the Scottish National Party chose to commit political suicide in revenge for the failure of Labour 's devolution proposals , by supporting the Tories ' ‘ no confidence ’ motion in the Commons , Callaghan 's procrastination and the effects of his autocratic dealings with the unions were surely the main factors weakening the credibility of Labour between 1978 and 79 . |
| 8 | A few years later , that sum was awarded to Robert Maxwell for the false suggestion that he was angling for a peerage , while ten times that amount was lavished on Jeffrey Archer in revenge for the suggestion that he had received a sexual favour from a prostitute he had admitted to paying to leave the country . |