Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] dead in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Walker was found dead in March at his London flat . |
| 2 | But however hard she tries , Joan will never forget February 6 , 1971 when Bobby was shot dead in hate-filled Belfast . |
| 3 | Exactly a month later ‘ Good Samaritan ’ Philomena Hanna was shot dead in the Springfield Road chemist 's shop where she worked . |
| 4 | Roman Catholic mother-of-four Teresa Dowds de Mogollon was shot dead in her north Belfast home and Catholic delivery man Jim Bell was killed outside an ice-cream factory in the east of the city . |
| 5 | Tony Dobson was found dead in the yard at Roundhill Farm , Roundhill Road , near Hurworth , where he often used steam equipment to clean the Volvo articulated lorry . |
| 6 | Mr Goult was found dead in an armchair at his ground floor flat in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , on Saturday afternoon . |
| 7 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 8 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 9 | Marco Tulio Hernández , 28 , a member of the Honduran Human Rights Defence Committee and of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees in Honduras was shot dead in San Pedro Sula on July 22 ; the military was widely believed to be responsible . |
| 10 | Craig was shot dead in 1988 in an East Belfast pub on the orders of a new hardline leadership out to clean up the gang 's image . |
| 11 | Former steelworker Stuart McMillan was shot dead in September 1991 just days before he was due to fly home to Britain for a family re-union . |
| 12 | It 's almost exactly three years since twenty three year old Beverley Lewis was found dead in conditions of total squalour at her home in the Coney Hill area of Gloucester . |
| 13 | It 's twenty-three years since Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found dead in a swimming pool . |
| 14 | Gwen Watkins son Tristan was found dead in a pool in Oxford , after 20 years of mental illness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Isador Johnson , who was twenty nine and from Northampton was found dead in August . |
| 17 | A British citizen named as Andrew Blake was shot dead in Istanbul on Aug. 19 , in an attack for which the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) claimed responsibility . |
| 18 | On Nov. 13 , 1989 , Spence was found dead in a Boston Hotel and was presumed to have committed suicide . |
| 19 | Divorced father-of-three Terry Liffen was found dead in his car with a hose pipe leading from the exhaust . |
| 20 | Mr Urquhart was shot dead in front of his girlfriend in Marylebone High Street on 2 January in what appeared to be a professional ‘ hit ’ . |
| 21 | Rebecca Mossman was found dead in her cot in Sutton , Surrey . |