Example sentences of "killed in the first " in BNC.

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1 ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . )
2 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 .
3 Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered .
4 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 .
5 Eighteen of them were killed in the first stage of the pursuit , 5 were later " cutdown in the highways " and 2 more at Gidom .
6 And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War .
7 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 ) .
8 The six children were killed in the first of three road ambushes near the provincial capital which left 20 people dead since 2 March .
9 Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up .
10 And it was killed in the first one , that was two .
11 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 .
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