Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] killed [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were both killed in a car crash when I was sixteen . ’ |
| 2 | A few years ago , a young woman was brutally killed by a notorious murderer who was later brought to justice . |
| 3 | For he was not killed in a car accident . |
| 4 | ‘ She was probably killed by a blow on the head , Minister . |
| 5 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 6 | I agree that he was probably killed by a single blow and that wooden mallet on the table seems the likely weapon . |
| 7 | Bartholomew was later killed on a ship taken in the Middle Sea by Moorish pirates . ’ |
| 8 | Her love for him was intense and her sense of loss was as great when he was tragically killed in a crash on the way to visit her in New York a matter of months after winning the world middleweight title ; Piaf had persuaded him to make the trip . |
| 9 | The 1963 BM exhibition of the prints , and Harris 's definitive catalogue Goya : Engravings and Lithographs ( published 1964 ) , were the culmination of his career ; he was tragically killed in a car accident on the eve of the book 's publication . |
| 10 | In the following spring he was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident . |
| 11 | An appeal has been launched by Priory School , Banstead , in memory of Joanne Long , who was tragically killed after a School Fun Day in May this year . |
| 12 | The jury 's unanimous verdict was that L/Cpl Edwards was unlawfully killed by a person unknown . |
| 13 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |
| 14 | Goda , a Devonshire thegn , was evidently killed in a fierce battle resisting the latter attack , and 991 saw the defeat of an army under Ealdorman Brihtnoth of Essex at Maldon , and the first known payment of tribute — £10,000 . |
| 15 | But their partnership ended one sad day in 1968 , when Clark was inexplicably killed in a Formula Two race at Hockenheim . |
| 16 | You can now stride out purposefully along the edge path , across Ashway Rocks ; past the blackened cross in memory of James Platt , MP for Oldham , who was accidentally killed during a grouse shoot last century ; above the mighty Dove Stone Rocks , eventually contouring along the moorland lip high above Chew Brook , which tumbles down one of the deepest and most dramatic valleys in the area . |
| 17 | All of the staff who served in the armed forces survived and returned to the Survey , but Clough was accidentally killed by a train while working in a railway cutting in 1916 . |
| 18 | To name but a few : Archbishop Romero , gunned down by right-wing death squads while saying Mass in the Cathedral of San Salvador ; Father Ed de la Torre Filipino priest , poet and political activist , who spent nine years in prison under the Marcos regime ; and numerous priests and pastors working in Nicaragua , one of whom was recently killed by a Contra-laid mine . |