Example sentences of "[was/were] killed [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 2 | Eighteen of them were killed in the first stage of the pursuit , 5 were later " cutdown in the highways " and 2 more at Gidom . |
| 3 | The six children were killed in the first of three road ambushes near the provincial capital which left 20 people dead since 2 March . |
| 4 | Thirty years ago they built seven homes in the village for war veterans , in memory of the present owner 's great uncle , who was killed during the First World War . |
| 5 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 8 | Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up . |
| 9 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |