Example sentences of "killed the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) It is not certain on the facts of Dudley and Stephens that the two defendants would have died had they not killed the boy . |
| 2 | He had suspected his wife of having a lover , had killed the man on Easter Day and repudiated his wife . |
| 3 | But Tepilit refused to accept any suggestions that he had not killed the man deliberately . |
| 4 | ‘ I had done it , ’ Marek crowed , ‘ I had killed the man who had betrayed my father , and I was exhilarated . |
| 5 | I have killed the man who was your husband and my father . |
| 6 | I have killed the man who was my husband and the father of my sons . |
| 7 | Ruggiero Miletti had been killed the day before , on Monday morning , and yet the gang had waited until this morning to alert the family with a cruel message of hope ! |
| 8 | The RAF had killed the banker Alfred Herrhausen in November 1989 [ see p. 37049 ] ; carried out an unsuccessful car bomb attack on July 27 , 1990 , against Hans Neusel , state secretary at the West German Interior Ministry ; and fired shots at the US embassy in Bonn in January 1991 [ see p. 37990 ] . |
| 9 | On her return the mother had screamed aloud that he had killed the child . |
| 10 | ‘ Why would they have killed the guard and the wife — if they 'd got what they wanted ? ’ |
| 11 | Edmund would be killed the instant they appeared at the castle gates . |
| 12 | We thought we had killed the idea off . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , she was killed the night before last ; but she could have gone missing some time before that . ’ |
| 14 | Apparently it had been near here , not in Bahdu , that the Greek merchants had been killed the year before . |
| 15 | Where these two colonial anemones meet there is a ‘ dead ’ contact zone where one has killed the other . |
| 16 | There was dark blood around them on the deck , and I was sure each had killed the other in their drunken fight . |
| 17 | He has killed the tradition he loved , M. Grimaud said with contempt . |
| 18 | ‘ I should have killed the bastard , ’ Sharpe growled . |
| 19 | Well , I could have killed the bastard on the spot but I was n't armed . |
| 20 | ‘ So you ca n't think of anybody who would have killed the Admiral or Mr Trueman ? ’ |
| 21 | When the cat is found hanged in the closet ( the first act of violence after nearly an hour 's build-up ) , his wife reproaches him with being a coward because he will not confront the men she thinks have killed the animal . |
| 22 | He was doing quite well even without it : he had already defeated and killed the satrap Achaimenes , Xerxes ' brother ( Hdt. iii . |
| 23 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 24 | Nour had n't killed the cat . |
| 25 | She was curious , but it would be stupid to forget that curiosity had killed the cat . |
| 26 | In the end , that historic connection almost killed the company off . |
| 27 | You need other people who could have killed the wife , your essential suspects . |
| 28 | The court was told that he had killed the girl after taking part in sex play with her and then discovering that she was under age . |
| 29 | I had already told the Marshal that if anything happened to the King , he must take Flavia to Strelsau , tell the people that Duke Michael had killed the King — and that Flavia was their Queen . |
| 30 | The most influential of 20th century architects , Le Corbusier , perpetuated the notion that modern city planning will not materialise until ‘ we have killed the street ’ . |