Example sentences of "dead by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
| 2 | All the surrendering Germans in this instance had been shot dead by the Commandos . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if I did slip and break my hip I should no doubt be dead by the morning . |
| 4 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 5 | Formal negotiations for the English match might have been dead by the end of 1543 ; discussions about the queen 's marriage were not . |
| 6 | But her friend , ANC activist and employee Mrs Dudu Chilli , whose niece Finky Msomi , 13 , was shot dead by the Mandela United Football Club , told how she and Mrs Sisulu used to arrange escapes out of South Africa for youths who wanted to defect from Mrs Mandela 's bodyguard . |
| 7 | Howard later reported that the Nez Perce had ‘ jammed their ponies through , up the rocks … and among the fallen trees , without attempting to cut a limb , leaving blood to mark their path ; and abandoned animals with broken legs … or stretched dead by the wayside . ’ |
| 8 | She could be dead by the time children 's television started or , if not dead , at least well on the way to it . |
| 9 | The Jews fell in their hundreds and were seen lying dead by the roadside by George and the others as they passed by . |
| 10 | A 20-year-old RUC officer was shot dead by the IRA yesterday . |
| 11 | ‘ He will be dead by the morning , ’ says Dr Hassan Abshir flatly . |
| 12 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 13 | Normally , about half the kids born each year will be dead by the following spring . |
| 14 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 15 | He was obviously drunk or drugged when he wrote it , but it indicates that he expects to be dead by the time i read it . |
| 16 | In one case , a 36-year-old man was imprisoned for four years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old craft teacher after he had discovered that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , while an allegedly brutal husband was shot dead by the wife 's father after she ‘ fell into a nightmare of crime , violence and bizarre sex ’ . |
| 17 | I may be dead by the time you come back . " |
| 18 | In October , two women were shot dead by the Army for touring the Lower Falls with a siren , warning inhabitants of imminent raids . |
| 19 | Edward Field was dead by the mid-1690s . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , as I was tellin' the others , I 'll either be fit or dead by the time I get out of here . ’ |
| 21 | The latest victim Norman Truesdale , who was shot dead by the IRA in his shop in Century Street off the Oldpark Road on Wednesday night , was buried yesterday . |
| 22 | Just hours later , father-of-six Peter Gallagher , a Sinn Fein member from Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was shot dead by the UFF in Belfast . |
| 23 | NEIGHBOURS of the 17-year-old west Belfast youth shot dead by the UFF in a busy shopping centre have attended a short ceremony in his memory . |
| 24 | Four of the invading guerrillas were immediately shot dead by the security forces and seven others surrendered . |
| 25 | Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero , 43 , the effective head of the Medellín drug cartel while its leader ( and his cousin ) Pablo Escobar Gaviria remained in hiding to escape an intensive government manhunt , was shot dead by the security forces in a gun battle in Medellín on Aug. 11 . |
| 26 | Dec. 9 passed relatively peacefully , although one Palestinian was shot dead by the security forces in Gaza and a soldier died in a bomb explosion in Bethlehem . |
| 27 | A civilian died in an IRA explosion near a Belfast police and army base on Aug. 15 , while on the same day a former part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) was shot dead by the IRA in Co . |
| 28 | A Roman Catholic taxi driver was shot dead by the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF ) , the military wing of the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) , at his home in north Belfast on Feb. 2 . |
| 29 | The S A S are already there and there are people that have been shot dead , unarmed people , civilians who 've been shot dead by the S A S. |
| 30 | The belief that lavish entertainment was an indispensable part of successful diplomacy was not quite dead by the mid-century : a generation earlier the vicomte de Chateaubriand on his appointment to London had been careful to take with him Montmirel , reputedly the best cook of the age . |