Example sentences of "[vb infin] killed [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd know what you were , I 'd have killed myself in the Lubianka . ’ |
| 2 | I would have killed myself . |
| 3 | ‘ If , in the opinion of the judges , you theoretically land a blow which would have killed somebody outright , you win by something called ippon , or one point , ’ John explains . |
| 4 | Because the way he was wiring them to start with , would have killed somebody in the end . |
| 5 | ‘ You could have killed yourself . |
| 6 | When I was unable to finish the heaped plateful , the waitress expressed concern that I had not enjoyed one of their local specialties ; two , I felt , would have killed me . |
| 7 | ‘ They might have killed me , might n't they ? |
| 8 | They might have killed me , that 's what I could n't stop thinking about . |
| 9 | ‘ You should have killed me ! |
| 10 | I had to do it in self-defence , or else he would have killed me . |
| 11 | ‘ You could have killed me any time you wanted to , ’ Sheldukher sneered sadistically down at it , ‘ just by shutting down life support . |
| 12 | And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away . |
| 13 | She could have killed me if she 'd wanted to … |
| 14 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
| 15 | Though how she could possibly have killed her husband , I ca n't think . ’ |
| 16 | If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them . |
| 17 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 18 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 19 | ‘ We have come here and beaten the best form team in the country and we could have killed them off at half-time with a three or four-goal lead . |
| 20 | ‘ I would have killed them , hot-shot . |
| 21 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 22 | I would normally have killed them with one strike of my talons ! ’ |
| 23 | The cold could have killed them . |
| 24 | If someone had suggested he should have killed them then , where they lay , and avert all the trouble that was to come , Dulé would have been astonished that such a cowardly procedure could be proposed , let alone seriously entertained . |
| 25 | ‘ Mandeville might have killed them , ’ I suggested . |
| 26 | A second goal would have killed them off but we did n't manage to get it . |
| 27 | If they lost , she would have killed them . |
| 28 | She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht . |
| 29 | And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he 'll have killed himself . ’ |