Example sentences of "kill [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 2 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 3 | A weak sun was about to rise , turning the darkness to a dusty grey : their horses plodded along the frozen track , both riders taking special care against the potholes , some as deep as a man , which could bring down and even kill both the unwary rider and his horse . |
| 4 | Disuse is the natural way to kill off an old behaviour pattern . |
| 5 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 6 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 7 | I have this day killed rather an extraordinary Bird , and one that you will recollect , at least there is every probability of its being the same ; you will remember the large Snow White Petrel ( a variety of the black species ) which followed us nearly all the way from the Cape to Tasman 's Head and which I was so desirous of procuring without effecting my purpose . |
| 8 | After he has killed off the whole lot of them in various ways , he shouts in triumph , ‘ Jesus , I got 'em all ! ’ |
| 9 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 10 | The toxic chemical cocktail has killed virtually every living thing along several miles of the stream . |
| 11 | The head of Keats , for example , wildly festooned with metal locks which it had proved impossible to file smooth had flown very erratically indeed , killing only a fat money-lender and a camel standing at some distance from the field of action . |
| 12 | Ironically , the actions of a few Western governments , led by the United states and including Britain , could finally kill off the nodule-mining industry before it even begins to operate , and all in the name of protecting the industry . |
| 13 | If it does not kill off the golden goose , it will certainly let it starve to death through neglect . |
| 14 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 15 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 16 | Now a suggested code of practice will kill off the old law . |
| 17 | We can not kill off an old idea in order to develop a better one . |
| 18 | Is it worth killing off the unsuccessful part in order to concentrate resources on the successful side ? |
| 19 | By killing off the stable element of the fictional character , she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it , freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play . |
| 20 | It is going to be quite a fine balance between the need to cut spending , cutting taxation and not killing off the tender recovery , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 22 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |