Example sentences of "hanged himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 2 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 3 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 4 | In an early episode of Hill Street Blues the ‘ joke ’ of a ‘ nut ’ who thinks he is Dracula , complete with cape and thirst for blood , is caught out by the discovery that he has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 5 | He had hanged himself . |
| 6 | Five months later he was found dead in his garage , having hanged himself . |
| 7 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 8 | Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 9 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 10 | No one used the cloakroom where Jarvis 's grandfather had hanged himself and no grown-up person ever would . |
| 11 | When Cecilia looked back to Tina 's childhood it was always that particular day when Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself that she remembered . |
| 12 | The day before Joe came home Anne heard the shocking news that Cormac O'Neill had hanged himself and his mother had found his dead body . |
| 13 | He had owned a big department store that had burned down , and he had then hanged himself . |
| 14 | ‘ The boy hanged himself . |
| 15 | No Leopold , whom the Archdeacon had said hanged himself . |
| 16 | The Israeli authorities claimed that the detainee , Attiyah Abdel Atti Zanin , had hanged himself in his cell . |
| 17 | It was announced on April 29 that Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili , the leader of the extreme nationalist Pamyat organization who had been sentenced in October 1990 to two years in a labour camp for anti-Semitism [ see p. 37789 ] , had hanged himself in prison . |
| 18 | A MAN hanged himself in his bedroom after he became depressed about a break-up with his girlfriend . |
| 19 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 20 | Paula said that the man had hanged himself because his wife would not go back to him . |
| 21 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 22 | Paula said that the man had hanged himself because his wife would not go back to him . |
| 23 | Carer hanged himself from doorknob |
| 24 | A YOUNG man hanged himself after a row with his girlfriend , an inquest heard yesterday . |