Example sentences of "was killed [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Thirty years ago they built seven homes in the village for war veterans , in memory of the present owner 's great uncle , who was killed during the First World War . |
2 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
3 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
4 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
5 | Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up . |
6 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |