Example sentences of "[was/were] kill a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 2 | It turned out that my grandfather was right for Cody was killed a few minutes afterwards for just this reason . |
| 3 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 4 | He was killed a few months later and she died soon after her son was born . |
| 5 | One young man was killed a few weeks before the Armistice . |