Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] killed [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 2 | Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up . |
| 3 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 4 | The six children were killed in the first of three road ambushes near the provincial capital which left 20 people dead since 2 March . |
| 5 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |