Example sentences of "[noun] have been killed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the eldest son , his two brothers having been killed in the Great War . |
| 2 | According to Indian Army statistics , at least 1,100 Indian soldiers and 2,200 Tamil fighters had been killed in the 32 months of fighting since the IPKF 's July 1987 arrival ; other estimates put the losses higher , and there had been an unknown number of civilian casualties . |
| 3 | He is murdered by a peasant , Gaspard , whose child has been killed by the furious driving of his coachman . |
| 4 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 5 | Parents had been killed in the Hamburg bombing , so perhaps she was feeling lonely . |
| 6 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 7 | The re-contras claimed that 66 former contras had been killed during the year in continuing clashes with Sandinista army and police personnel who they wanted replaced by a police force which included ex-contras . |
| 8 | Aid workers in Freetown were quoted as estimating that between 3,000 and 5,000 Sierra Leonean civilians and Liberian refugees had been killed by the NPFL since incursions began in March [ see p. 38136 ] , and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva was quoted on May 4 as saying that 10,000 people had fled from the border area . |
| 9 | Some official sources on June 30 said that one gunman had been killed in the exchange of fire but that a second was under interrogation . |
| 10 | Over the last few decades , at least 150,000 Mayan Indians have been killed by the army , one million have been displaced and a further 40,000 have ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 11 | She told me that her fiancé had been killed in the war . |
| 12 | Figures published in the Independent of Nov. 28 stated that 13 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli forces during November ( compared with six in November 1991 ) , one Israeli had been killed by Palestinians ( as in November 1991 ) and four " collaborators " had been killed by Palestinians ( compared with six ) . |
| 13 | The military estimated on Dec. 4 that 1,853 guerrillas and 450 government troops had been killed since the beginning of the offensive launched by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) in San Salvador on Nov. 11 . |
| 14 | Reports on March 19 suggested that at least 30 Myanman troops had been killed in the Thai offensive . |
| 15 | It was the first time that a foreign tourist had been killed since the start of the intifada in 1987 . |
| 16 | And Benedicta the widow who attended every morning Mass , whose husband had been killed in the king 's wars beyond the seas … ? |
| 17 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 18 | Statistics released by state security agencies on May 13 showed that 243 police officers had been killed since the start of the year . |
| 19 | However , Chicot and his father had been killed by the Nazis , and no one knew what had happened to the girl . |
| 20 | Left 19th century Luton Hoo with its 4,000-acre estate by his grandfather — his father had been killed in the war — Mr Phillips invested heavily in an industrial project on his land . |
| 21 | His father had been killed in the Rostock riots of 1931 , and it seems that Gustav himself had for certain been a Worker Youth . ’ |
| 22 | His father had been killed in the Brian war when his helmet-buckle had been slashed apart . |
| 23 | The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said there were unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 people had been killed since the weekend . |
| 24 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 25 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 26 | By this time more than 20 people had been killed since the beginning of the month in a spate of bombings and gun battles between Ossetes and Georgian militia detachments . |
| 27 | The Interior Ministry announced on Nov. 12 that 44 people had been killed during the crackdown and a further 180 people remained missing . |
| 28 | In one village , three people had been killed during the distribution of aid . |
| 29 | Further to the March-April prison camp revelations , the Interior Ministry on June 7 denied allegations made recently by the UDF in the Washington Post that 20,000 people had been killed at the Lovech and other camps . |
| 30 | Subsequent reports put the numbers of dead and wounded far higher , the opposition daily Madagascar Tribune claiming that 138 people had been killed by the guard , and that , in addition , 40 to 80 corpses had been found in a mass grave . |