Example sentences of "was killed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1916 the 2nd Earl of Feversham was killed at the Battle of the Somme and the house became a girls ' school until 1895 . |
| 2 | On April 9th , 1917 Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras . |
| 3 | In 1916 , when her daughter Carrie 's husband was killed at the Somme , she managed that too , looking after the three-year old my mother , so that Carrie could go on working at the mill . |
| 4 | Potter gave up his troop 25 July 1645 , becoming parliamentary commissioner to the army in succession to his brother Captain John Potter , who was killed at the battle of Naseby . |
| 5 | But Gustav 's wife was killed at the end of the war . |
| 6 | In 1030 he was killed at the battle of Stiklestad ( near Trondheim ) by his own people , and Cnut then put his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Swegen in charge there . |
| 7 | Her husband , Leslie was killed at the wheel of his lorry by two joyriders racing each other . |
| 8 | The car driver , Brian Edward Boyle , 37 , of Howe Hill Close , Yafforth , Northallerton , was killed at the scene . |
| 9 | I should explain here that I am one of two brothers — and that my elder brother , Leonard , was killed during the Southern African War while I was still a boy . |
| 10 | My father was killed during the war , and my mother married his best friend . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , Jack Canary was killed during the process after the BT–13 he was ferrying suffered an in-flight fire . |
| 12 | He was killed during the night of 20 October 1941 , when the Wellington bomber he was piloting crashed in Chipping Warden , Northamptonshire . |
| 13 | Thirty years ago they built seven homes in the village for war veterans , in memory of the present owner 's great uncle , who was killed during the First World War . |
| 14 | The chances are he was killed for the money he was carrying . |
| 15 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm assuming she was killed on the Saturday , of course , when she first went missing , as we now know . |
| 17 | Strangely enough , that young man was killed on the same motor bike within three months of that — killed within two or three hundred yards of the same spot . |
| 18 | They think she was killed on the night she disappeared . |
| 19 | Years later , Jack was told that some time before his tenure of Bradley Fold West signal box a man from a nearby village was killed on the line . |
| 20 | MARILYN MONROE was killed on the direct orders of President John F. Kennedy — according to a book to be published next month . |
| 21 | ‘ Though that is true only up to a point — last year after the dog fox was killed on the road the vixen called for three nights , the saddest sound I ever heard . ’ |
| 22 | Two daughters and a son were born to them before ‘ Bill ’ was killed on the western front in February 1917 . |
| 23 | Rosenberg was killed on the western front 1 April 1918 and buried in an unmarked grave . |
| 24 | Mrs Burt 's husband was killed on the Somme in 1916 . |
| 25 | On Oct. 22 , 1989 , a Greek Air Force officer , Michalis Pavlis , was killed on the island of Lesbos while apparently attempting to plant a bomb in a building where Mitsotakis was due to speak . |
| 26 | No , that 's Whisky what was killed on the main road who done that , |
| 27 | The next thing it was killed on the main the road ! |
| 28 | Twenty-two year old Marie , who is expecting her second child , was killed on the M 50 motorway near Twinning in Gloucestershire last June . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , well , one of his sergeants was killed saving the lives of two village children who fell into the mill race , remember . |
| 30 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |