Example sentences of "to kill [pn reflx] [prep] " 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 | So Alfred had laced his own brandy and taken it to the little hut which had youthful associations , there to kill himself in a manner that was almost ceremonial . |
| 5 | RODERICK Newall , the former army officer accused of murdering his wealthy Scottish parents in the Channel Islands five years ago , has made a third attempt to kill himself in prison in Gibraltar , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 6 | He had tried to kill himself before being arrested . |
| 7 | Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby-faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . |
| 8 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 9 | Anne knew Nina could easily find a place to kill herself in private . |
| 10 | Kevorkian , an enthusiastic advocate of euthanasia , had built a " suicide machine " which had enabled Janet Adkins , an Oregon woman in the early stages of Alzheimer 's disease , to kill herself in June 1990 . |
| 11 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 12 | Apart from that , I have n't the least interest in whether you choose to kill yourself by falling from a great height , or crashing into something at high speed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ First you try to kill yourself by running off into a blizzard , and now you risk life and limb because you ca n't even bring yourself to admit to me that you 've never skied in your life before . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 15 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 16 | These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle . |
| 17 | Throughout October high-caste youths continued to kill themselves in protest at the government 's plan . |
| 18 | They would n't have allowed them , you know , did n't want to kill themselves like that . |
| 19 | God , if anyone was going to kill themselves after that , it was me — me , Inspector — not him . ’ |