Example sentences of "killed [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the Grand Theogonist is killed outright the Jade Griffon will enable him to sustain wounds which would kill an ordinary man . |
| 2 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 3 | She married him just after our dad was killed down the pit — dancing on our father 's grave , was what Mr Evans called it . |
| 4 | In answer to questions after the lecture Beamish said that the Russian Revolution had killed off the intelligentsia and that the country was now inhabited by ‘ animal life people ’ . |
| 5 | Drink and the devil had killed off the rest — |
| 6 | THE BRITISH government 's decision to pour taxpayers ' money into a new factory to make video tape for the Japanese firm , Hitachi , has finally killed off the idea of putting a tax on the tape . |
| 7 | Having killed off the author and dragged all manner of cultural forms into the debate he finally reaffirms the text and its readability . |
| 8 | In the final sad years of the S&D , it vividly shows how the Western Region inexorably killed off the line and how Norman and his station staff were at the forefront of the fight to save the route . |