Example sentences of "killed [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 55 females , from babies to elderly women , have been killed during the first year of the Uprising ; shot dead with live ammunition , rubber and plastic bullets ; suffocated with tear gas and some have been beaten to death . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On Sunday 10th November it fell once again to Sir Alan Sykes to unveil the War Memorial , now containing the sixty additional names of Old Stopfordians killed during the Second World War . |
| 4 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 5 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 6 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 7 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 8 | Warwickshire , the county of Percy Jeeves , killed in the First World War , and after whom the resourceful butler was named ; Warwickshire whose tie P.G . |
| 9 | Eighteen of them were killed in the first stage of the pursuit , 5 were later " cutdown in the highways " and 2 more at Gidom . |
| 10 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 11 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 12 | The six children were killed in the first of three road ambushes near the provincial capital which left 20 people dead since 2 March . |
| 13 | Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up . |
| 14 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |
| 15 | erm if you go back to the nineteen thirties , for example , depression , love on the dole , deferral of marriage , potential husbands killed in the first World War , low birthrate , small families , below the level that would replace the population in future , and many of the Wartime and late War reports erm the Royal Commission on population , which reported in forty nine , suggested that population may stagnate , round about forty million plus , even decline to about thirty million . |
| 16 | The Eighties ended with Mrs Thatcher being forced to concede increased pensions of £40 a week for widows of servicemen killed in the second world war . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 18 | In his childhood several adults he had loved had been killed in the Second World War . |
| 19 | Relatives of an R-A-F bomber crew killed in the Second World War have flown to Russia for a memorial service . |
| 20 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 21 | It was killed in the second one as well . |
| 22 | Soon , Mr Peter Fechter , aged 18 , the first of nearly 200 East Germans killed in the last 28 years while trying to escape , was shot as he climbed over the Wall near Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 23 | ‘ He was killed in the last war , before I was born . |
| 24 | Simon Ellis had lost both parents before he married , and his only brother had been killed in the last War . |
| 25 | His father would never have heard of Isaac Rosenberg , an English poet , killed in the last weeks of the ‘ war to end all wars ’ . |
| 26 | Fifty-five people have been killed in the last twelve years . |
| 27 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 28 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 29 | Summer savory is grown as a half-hardy annual , sowing outdoors in April-May , to thin to 20cm ( 8in ) apart , when the plants will grow into little bushes , but be killed by the first hard frost in autumn . |
| 30 | But in fact , it was just as likely that he would be killed by the first group of native Tarvarians he encountered . |