Example sentences of "been killed [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 2 | A police motorcycle instructor has been killed on a training exercise . |
| 3 | Fifty-five people have been killed on a seventeen-mile stretch of the Oxford to Swindon road . |
| 4 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 5 | Since I answered a similar question on 14 November , seven people have been killed as a result of the security situation , of whom six were civilians and one was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 6 | In a statement on Nov. 22 the Karen National Union ( KNU ) estimated that over 800 civilians , 375 government troops and 27 Karen guerrillas had been killed as a result of fighting during the last six weeks in the lower central Irrawaddy Delta , south-east of Rangoon . |
| 7 | The report , South Africa — State of Fear , stated that during this period more than 7,000 people had been killed as a result of political violence . |
| 8 | According to The Times of April 12 , the DPK claimed that 50 people had been killed during an attack by government troops on a refugee centre near Halabja on the Iranian border . |
| 9 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 10 | Magellan 's tattered fleet , on its historic circumnavigation , lost a further ship in Indonesian waters while limping home after Magellan himself had been killed in a skirmish in the Philippines . |
| 11 | ‘ They said I should have been killed in a crash ’ |
| 12 | Two people have been killed in a crash between a car and lorry which completely blocked a main road for five hours . |
| 13 | Bernard was thought to have been killed in a car-bomb attack a year and a half ago . |
| 14 | Four members of one family , including a mother and baby , have been killed in a road accident in Norfolk . |
| 15 | A nurse from Gloucestershire has been killed in a road accident just two days after emigrating to America . |
| 16 | Almost eighty people have been killed in a toy factory fire in China and site workers from Middlebrook Mushrooms marched through Selby to mark the first anniversary of their dispute . |
| 17 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 18 | Then , nine months ago , when Luce Weston senior had been killed in a motorway pile-up , she had , at her niece 's request , taken over the running of the gallery . |
| 19 | Two members of an all-girl singing group have been killed in a motorway crash , just days before their television debut . |
| 20 | Two members of a singing group have been killed in a motorway crash , just days before their television debut . |
| 21 | David Tinyefusa as saying that 150 of those arrested were " confirmed rebels " and that at least 180 rebels had been killed in a battle with troops on May 7 at Padibe , 40 km north of Gulu . |
| 22 | Ten holidaymakers from Canada and the United States have been killed in a coach crash on the M-Two in Kent . |
| 23 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 24 | Matthew J Moulton , one of the best liked and most experienced hill trampers in Scotland , has been killed in a fall when descending from Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Baeg , between Glen Coe and Glen Etive . |
| 25 | A mother and daughter have been killed in a head on collision . |
| 26 | A BRITISH bride and her husband have been killed in a helicopter crash during their honeymoon in Hawaii . |
| 27 | Nine soldiers had also been killed in a PKK attack later on Dec. 24 . |
| 28 | Six people , including a nine-month-old baby , have been killed in a bomb at the world-famous Uffizi Gallery in Italy . |
| 29 | A man at the centre of a stay-behind group in France has been killed in a Brittany sailing resort . |
| 30 | Both Isobel 's parents had been killed in a motor accident , and Peter Dawson had obtained leave from his unit in France to attend their funeral in Wales . |