Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] dead [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man has been shot dead at his home in Lancashire after he and his family were held hostage by armed raiders . |
| 2 | A father of five has been shot dead in Ulster . |
| 3 | A lorry driver has been shot dead in his cab in Ulster . |
| 4 | A German tourist has been shot dead by a lone gunman in an attempted robbery in Scotland , his wife and daughter are seriously injured . |
| 5 | Peter Alcock , the last miner of six trapped in the Bilsthorpe pit in Nottinghamshire , has been certified dead at the scene . |
| 6 | THE daughter of Liverpool-born sex entrepreneur Paul Raymond has been found dead at her luxury home . |
| 7 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 8 | When best-selling author Max Telligan 's secretary , Liz , and his about-to-be-ex-wife Harriet , read that he has been found dead in Munich , they are stunned . |
| 9 | LLOYD 'S Name Margaret Jones , 55 , who stood to lose £200,000 , has been found dead in her fume-filled car near her home at Parkhill , South Wales . |
| 10 | Ian Spiro , the businessman wanted for questioning after his wife and children were found murdered , has been found dead in the California desert . |
| 11 | A MAN has been found dead in a police cell at Greenock , Strathclyde Police said last night . |
| 12 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 13 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 14 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 15 | ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms . |
| 16 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 17 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in . |
| 18 | Astrel Charles , an opposition parliamentary deputy , was reported on Dec. 18 by the Caribbean news agency Trans World Radio ( Bonair ) to have been shot dead by a rural official who had demanded that Charles end a meeting with his constituents . |
| 19 | Five American nuns were reported on Nov. 1 to have been shot dead after disappearing between Oct. 20 and 22 in areas of Monrovia then controlled by Taylor 's forces . |
| 20 | They ran back and found Alice had been struck dead by lighting . |
| 21 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 22 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 23 , quoting the Reuters news agency , said that more than 1,500 people had been shot dead since 1986 in Karachi alone . |
| 23 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 24 | Two Irish policemen had been shot dead at Soloheadbeg last Tuesday by fellow Irishmen : it looked as if Joseph Hyde 's prediction about Civil War might become a reality all too soon . |
| 25 | Though critical of the fact that four civilians had been shot dead without conceivable justification , the document generally endorsed the Army 's version of events and , in the press view , completely exonerated the paratroops ( Curtis , 1984:50 ) . |
| 26 | Micky Banks had been shot dead on stage . |
| 27 | His predecessor , Expedito Ribeiro de Souza , had been shot dead on Feb. 2 ; police arrested a suspect who claimed that he had been hired by a local landowner to carry out the killing . |
| 28 | All the surrendering Germans in this instance had been shot dead by the Commandos . |
| 29 | Chata , their chief , had been shot dead by a bank guard in Wyoming during an attempted hold-up . |
| 30 | Witnesses , however , claimed that the six had been shot dead by security forces . |