Example sentences of "[vb infin] killed " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 2 | She knew that if he wanted to he could have killed her ; without apparent effort he held off her attack once the first shock had past . |
| 3 | Fenna would have killed her . |
| 4 | The way Amanda had it rigged , it would n't have killed a sparrow … ’ |
| 5 | If that agreement is already deeply ailing , the Syrian invasion would have killed it off . |
| 6 | Nuclear explosives might not have killed anyone since Nagasaki in 1945 , but the use of nuclear fuel in a civil reactor had . |
| 7 | ‘ When mine did that to me , ’ said Bella , ‘ I could have killed him . |
| 8 | Stupid devil might have killed someone . |
| 9 | With the help of the town 's sheriff , the oddly-named Harry Truman , Agent Cooper makes the acquaintance of those who have known and may have killed Laura , an intriguing cast of more than 30 suspects who include her cocaine-dealing , football star boyfriend ; her shy biker lover ; her crazy psychiatrist ; her teenage vamp classmate ; her beautiful best friend ; and the gorgeous Oriental window who took English lessons from the dead girl . |
| 10 | I could not have done these things any more than I could have killed my mother . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’ |
| 12 | When I was unable to finish the heaped plateful , the waitress expressed concern that I had not enjoyed one of their local specialties ; two , I felt , would have killed me . |
| 13 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 14 | If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them . |
| 15 | The African drought put the lives of 35 million people at risk and may have killed 1 million of them ; |
| 16 | A Radioactive cloud that drifted across Britain after a fire at the Windscale nuclear factory in Cumbria in 1957 may have killed hundreds of people . |
| 17 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 18 | She may have killed a rabbit in a spot — a dead-end , for example — where it prevents her escape by blocking the burrow . |
| 19 | ‘ They would have killed you . |
| 20 | Might have killed the Canadian engineers , or even derailed the train . |
| 21 | Last night at our gig in Cardiff there was a bouncer at the front and he caught a youngster and he hit him in the throat , and he could have killed him . |
| 22 | I am immensely relieved — she had a terrible anxiety feeling , and the move might have killed her altogether , and must have as a writer , I think . |
| 23 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 24 | ‘ They had the diamonds ; they could have killed him , too . |
| 25 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 26 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 27 | ‘ That sort of injury would have killed most women , ’ said Barry . |
| 28 | farmer will have killed duckling |
| 29 | farmer must have killed duckling , etc . |
| 30 | ‘ If , in the opinion of the judges , you theoretically land a blow which would have killed somebody outright , you win by something called ippon , or one point , ’ John explains . |