Example sentences of "dead by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just hours later , father-of-six Peter Gallagher , a Sinn Fein member from Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was shot dead by the UFF in Belfast . |
| 2 | NEIGHBOURS of the 17-year-old west Belfast youth shot dead by the UFF in a busy shopping centre have attended a short ceremony in his memory . |
| 3 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 4 | In October , two women were shot dead by the Army for touring the Lower Falls with a siren , warning inhabitants of imminent raids . |
| 5 | Security sources say one of two men shot dead by the army in Northern Ireland early today , was a top Republican assassin ; he was named as Desi Grew , a leading member of the I R A. |
| 6 | In one case , a 36-year-old man was imprisoned for four years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old craft teacher after he had discovered that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , while an allegedly brutal husband was shot dead by the wife 's father after she ‘ fell into a nightmare of crime , violence and bizarre sex ’ . |
| 7 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 8 | The belief that lavish entertainment was an indispensable part of successful diplomacy was not quite dead by the mid-century : a generation earlier the vicomte de Chateaubriand on his appointment to London had been careful to take with him Montmirel , reputedly the best cook of the age . |
| 9 | The Jews fell in their hundreds and were seen lying dead by the roadside by George and the others as they passed by . |
| 10 | Four of the invading guerrillas were immediately shot dead by the security forces and seven others surrendered . |
| 11 | Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero , 43 , the effective head of the Medellín drug cartel while its leader ( and his cousin ) Pablo Escobar Gaviria remained in hiding to escape an intensive government manhunt , was shot dead by the security forces in a gun battle in Medellín on Aug. 11 . |
| 12 | Dec. 9 passed relatively peacefully , although one Palestinian was shot dead by the security forces in Gaza and a soldier died in a bomb explosion in Bethlehem . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if I did slip and break my hip I should no doubt be dead by the morning . |
| 14 | ‘ He will be dead by the morning , ’ says Dr Hassan Abshir flatly . |
| 15 | Sharon McKenna , a Catholic , was shot dead by the UVF as she helped an elderly Protestant friend on Belfast 's Shore Road . |
| 16 | She could be dead by the time children 's television started or , if not dead , at least well on the way to it . |
| 17 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 18 | He was obviously drunk or drugged when he wrote it , but it indicates that he expects to be dead by the time i read it . |
| 19 | I may be dead by the time you come back . " |
| 20 | ‘ Well , as I was tellin' the others , I 'll either be fit or dead by the time I get out of here . ’ |
| 21 | The Government report reveals that in ninteen ninety alone , three and a half thousand birds were dead by the time they 'd arrived in Britain . |
| 22 | Spectators and Ambulance crews tried to revive her but she was dead by the time she reached hospital … |
| 23 | Mr Horn called for the resignation of the six men , warning he could be dead by the time they read the letters . |
| 24 | Probably be dead by the time |
| 25 | Howard later reported that the Nez Perce had ‘ jammed their ponies through , up the rocks … and among the fallen trees , without attempting to cut a limb , leaving blood to mark their path ; and abandoned animals with broken legs … or stretched dead by the wayside . ’ |
| 26 | Formal negotiations for the English match might have been dead by the end of 1543 ; discussions about the queen 's marriage were not . |