Example sentences of "kill himself by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 2 | Philip got his revenge when his army beat an Athenian-led alliance at the battle of Chaironea in 338BC , thereby putting Greece under his control and , a little later , causing Demosthenes to kill himself by poison . |
| 3 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 4 | How easy is it to show concern for school work when a beloved father takes you to school in the morning and kills himself by midday ? |
| 5 | The wretched man made his way to Brighton where after one bungled attempt he walked off the pier and killed himself by drowning . |
| 6 | The last remark is odd : her half-brother Charles certainly killed himself by jumping off a bridge , and it is unlikely that the deaths of her sisters ‘ Topsy ’ and ‘ Baby ’ were due to an accidental overdose of veronal . |
| 7 | On May 16th Dr Kevorkian was present when Ronald Mansur , who had terminal bone and lung cancer , killed himself by breathing carbon monoxide from a portable tank . |
| 8 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 9 | A computer manager sought by police for the murder of his wife and children apparently killed himself by walking into the sea . |
| 10 | He escaped the fire but later killed himself by jumping in front of a truck . |
| 11 | Recording a verdict that he killed himself by an overdose Liverpool coroner Roy Barter said : ‘ He had been complaining of anxiety and obviously felt vulnerable before Christmas . ’ |
| 12 | A FORMER prisoner who suffered a form of epilepsy killed himself by lying in front of an oncoming train , an inquest jury heard . |
| 13 | ‘ Among those unable to be with us today , ’ continued the colonel , ‘ is a young man who followed Lieutenant Harvey into the enemy trenches and then killed four , perhaps five German soldiers before later stalking and shooting another , finally killing a German officer before being tragically killed himself by a stray bullet when only yards from the safety of his own trenches . ’ |
| 14 | She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht . |