Example sentences of "been killed in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the North of England 's leading women players , Julie Woodcock , 23 , the Cheshire champion , from Northwich , has been killed in a car accident near Buxton , Derbyshire . |
| 2 | One of the North of England 's leading women players , Julie Woodcock , 23 , the Cheshire champion , from Northwich , has been killed in a car accident near Buxton , Derbyshire . |
| 3 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 4 | Carole Martin and their assistant have been killed in a car crash and this has been the final straw for owner Trevor Martin , to whom we offer our condolences . |
| 5 | His only son had been killed in a car accident so Mum expected us to make a fuss of him . |
| 6 | A FATHER yesterday held the hand of the daughter he thought had been killed in a plane crash . |
| 7 | Both Isobel 's parents had been killed in a motor accident , and Peter Dawson had obtained leave from his unit in France to attend their funeral in Wales . |
| 8 | A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash . |
| 9 | A BRITISH bride and her husband have been killed in a helicopter crash during their honeymoon in Hawaii . |
| 10 | ‘ They said I should have been killed in a crash ’ |
| 11 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 12 | Bernard was thought to have been killed in a car-bomb attack a year and a half ago . |
| 13 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 14 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 15 | Magellan 's tattered fleet , on its historic circumnavigation , lost a further ship in Indonesian waters while limping home after Magellan himself had been killed in a skirmish in the Philippines . |
| 16 | A man at the centre of a stay-behind group in France has been killed in a Brittany sailing resort . |
| 17 | For many years , Marek wrote , he had believed his mother when she said his father had been killed in a car accident . |
| 18 | Matthew J Moulton , one of the best liked and most experienced hill trampers in Scotland , has been killed in a fall when descending from Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Baeg , between Glen Coe and Glen Etive . |
| 19 | The Ulster Unionist chairman said that just over 11 years ago an 11-year-old boy had been killed in a no-warning IRA bomb blast in the town . |
| 20 | Two crewmen of the UK Royal Air Force were killed on Aug. 17 , 1989 , when their Tornado jet crashed into the North Sea near Humberside , just two miles from the spot where three others had been killed in a mid-air collision involving similar aircraft on Aug. 14 , bringing to 24 the number of Tornados lost in British airspace since 1983 . |
| 21 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 22 | David Tinyefusa as saying that 150 of those arrested were " confirmed rebels " and that at least 180 rebels had been killed in a battle with troops on May 7 at Padibe , 40 km north of Gulu . |
| 23 | The Justice Department on Nov. 7 charged Walter Leroy Moody Jr with the murders of Judge Robert S. Vance and NAACP lawyer Robert E. Robinson , who had been killed in a mail-bomb campaign in December 1989 [ see p. 37408 ] . |
| 24 | Nine soldiers had also been killed in a PKK attack later on Dec. 24 . |
| 25 | The Press Trust of India reported that some of the Maoists had been killed in a subsequent encounter with police , but there was no confirmation of this at state government level . |
| 26 | Almost eighty people have been killed in a toy factory fire in China and site workers from Middlebrook Mushrooms marched through Selby to mark the first anniversary of their dispute . |
| 27 | Then , nine months ago , when Luce Weston senior had been killed in a motorway pile-up , she had , at her niece 's request , taken over the running of the gallery . |
| 28 | Three people have been killed in a gun attack on the Belfast offices of the IRA 's political wing , Sinn Fein . |
| 29 | A mother and daughter have been killed in a head on collision . |
| 30 | Four members of one family , including a mother and baby , have been killed in a road accident in Norfolk . |