Example sentences of "killed [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 In the meantime , all his friends have been dispatched by serial killers , his dad , wrongly accused of the crimes , has killed himself and his mum has gone mad .
2 It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up .
3 ‘ Larry , Demian 's killed himself , ‘ he said .
4 AN aircraft fitter who dreamed of being a pilot killed himself because his eyesight was n't good enough .
5 My first thought was that this was Dad lying at the foot of the stairs having killed himself .
6 She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht .
7 Spiro , who also worked for the CIA , is believed to have killed himself after murdering wife Gail , 41 , and children Sarah , 16 , Adam , 14 and Deanna , 11 , at their California home .
8 And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression .
9 We are very unlikely to come across a headline telling us that a member of the Anglican Church has killed himself ( unless , perhaps , it is a vicar ) — in fact , the Anglican 's religious affiliation is one of the last things likely to be mentioned in a report .
10 By the time Jarvis was five it was closed and abandoned and his grandfather had killed himself
11 It appeared that my cousin John Reed , who had spent and wasted all his money and some of his mother 's , and been in debt or in prison most of his life , had killed himself a week before .
12 Getting him to hospital is something I dread you would n't believe the struggle to get people to understand how bad it is — it 's usually building up for weeks but until he 's practically killed himself or someone else , no one wants to know .
13 I do n't know why , because there are plenty of other things that they can talk about-my wife has run away with another man , Alan Campbell has killed himself … ’
14 Therefore , if he had killed himself , he must have either climbed over or through the barrier somewhere near this point .
15 Alfred Glynn had killed himself because …
16 So he had probably left exactly when he meant to leave , intending to attack Terry Place but being killed himself .
17 A litany of names ran through his mind , beginning with Malcolm Kincaid , the student who had killed himself , through Bill Egan , Terry Place and Irene , Edward and Nona Pitt , and ending with Phyllis Henley .
18 Either he had gone to ground very effectively and was in hiding , or — and this was a rumour that spread increasingly amongst the cast — he had killed himself .
19 ‘ I think he 'll have killed himself . ’
20 The difference being that Laing was alive and living in London and Inner Space , while Reich had killed himself fifteen years before in the United States .
21 At first police thought Marc Jeffrey had killed himself .
22 Police initially thought he 'd killed himself .
23 Richard Armstrong , an independent investigator , told Darlington magistrates yesterday that he was told Timothy Sturdy had killed himself after being declared bankrupt .
24 His first task as a clergyman was to bury a 13-year-old girl who had killed herself when her periods started , not understanding what was ‘ wrong ’ with her .
25 Too short to have killed herself .
26 That was why I think mum must have killed herself . ’
27 Yet what good came from knowing that a woman had killed herself ?
28 She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway .
29 ‘ Susan would never have killed herself if she had n't had such easy access to a gun . ’
30 If I had killed myself , I should have known perfectly well what I was doing .
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