Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] dead [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three Protestants and two Catholics were shot dead on the weekend of Dec. 21-22 alone . |
| 2 | The government of New Zealand announced an immediate review of the country 's gun laws after 13 of the inhabitants of the tiny village of Aramoana , near Dunedin , South Island , were shot dead within the space of 24 hours by a man with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle . |
| 3 | Danny McCann , Mairead Farrell and Sean Savage were shot dead after the SAS was called into Gibraltar in 1988 to help police there round up a suspected IRA unit thought to be preparing an attack on British troops . |
| 4 | Four of the Israelis were shot dead in the past week . |
| 5 | Hundreds of civilians were shot dead in the streets by Iraqi forces or executed by firing squads . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In October , two women were shot dead by the Army for touring the Lower Falls with a siren , warning inhabitants of imminent raids . |
| 9 | But six-year-old Jason Harry and his sister Natalia , five , were found dead at the weekend after their unmarried mother Sharon Dawson , 23 , went to a police station . |
| 10 | Six of the crew were found dead in the fuselage and the rear gunner , Sgt Fenton , was found in the tail some distance away , barely alive . |
| 11 | Birds , seals and other wildlife were found dead in the first days of the disaster , and fishing and salmon farming were banned in a large area . |
| 12 | Douglas , 20 , and Scott Wood , 19 , were found dead in the wrecked Metro on a twisting side road between Crieff and Comrie , less than a mile from their flat at Strowan Stables , near Crieff . |
| 13 | All three occupants suffered multiple injuries and were certified dead at the crash site by a medical practitioner . |
| 14 | A parttime member of the UDR who was the son of a representative on the UUAC was killed when a bomb exploded at a petrol filling station where he and his wife were making a purchase and , in a further incident , a bus driver was shot dead at the wheel of his vehicle . |
| 15 | In the early hours a Supreme Soviet deputy , Viktor Aivanzian , was shot dead at the headquarters of the Armenian National Army ( ANA — the largest militia group , claiming 160,000 members ) , where he had gone with a contingent from the Armenian Pan-National Movement ( to which the ANA was refusing to subordinate itself ) to discuss a shooting incident of the night before . |
| 16 | Another thing they have in common , sadly , is violence at screenings ; one kid was shot dead outside the cinema on Juice 's opening night and it caused distributors Paramount to withdraw advertising for the movie . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A 20-year-old RUC officer was shot dead by the IRA yesterday . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Just hours later , father-of-six Peter Gallagher , a Sinn Fein member from Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was shot dead by the UFF in Belfast . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sharon McKenna , a Catholic , was shot dead by the UVF as she helped an elderly Protestant friend on Belfast 's Shore Road . |
| 27 | The ELN claimed responsibility for the murder on Nov. 24 of Juan Barragán Ruiz , a Conservative Party ( PCC ) congressional deputy who was shot dead in the north-western city of Bucaramanga . |
| 28 | A former " contra " leader , Enrique Bermúdez Varela , 58 , was shot dead in the capital , Managua , on Feb. 16 . |
| 29 | Dianora Perez , a leading member of the Democratic Socialist Party ( PSD — part of the governing coalition ) , was shot dead in the capital Guatemala City on May 1 by gunmen who escaped arrest . |
| 30 | On May 1 a Croat was shot dead in the mainly Serbian village of Brsadin ( near Vukovar ) , and on May 2 shooting began when a group of Croatian policemen entered Borovo Selo near Vukovar to look for three missing colleagues . |