Example sentences of "[been] killed [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time there were rumours that she had been killed but she certainly survived to raise another litter . |
| 2 | However , an Afar member of the Chamber of Deputies , Mohammed Issa Cheicko , claimed on Dec. 18 that 26 men and four women had been killed after police fired indiscriminately into a group of about 100 people whom they had arrested . |
| 3 | The double Derby-winner is believed to have been killed after ransom demands were issued . |
| 4 | A hundred and twenty people have been killed after terrorists exploded a bomb in the cockpit of a plane they were trying to highjack in South China . |
| 5 | Two U S air force pilots have been killed after their Phantom reconnaissance jet crashed in the Southern Desert of Saudi Arabia . |
| 6 | On June 20 , the Bosnian Presidency [ for membership see below ] declared a state of war , and a general mobilization in Bosnia-Hercegovina , where , it said , 7,200 people had been killed since the start of fighting , more than 30,000 were missing presumed dead , and there were 1,303,469 refugees . |
| 7 | In an air attack on the way back he had been killed while firing away at the fighters who were strafing his truck . |
| 8 | MANY MORE cricketers have been killed while batting at Lord 's in fictional matches than in real life , mercifully . |
| 9 | A report published by the human rights organization Amnesty International on Aug. 21 contained further claims that hundreds of people had been killed while under detention between November 1990 and March 1991 [ for April report see p. 38135 ] . |
| 10 | A fourteen year old boy has been killed while playing with friends at a derelict manor house . |
| 11 | Reporting back after a two-week visit to Kuwait , an AI fact-finding team said scores of victims had been killed and hundreds more had been arbitrarily arrested , many brutally tortured by Kuwaiti armed forces and members of ‘ resistance ’ groups since 26 February . |
| 12 | An unnamed man had been killed and his body dumped in a pond in a park . |
| 13 | Twelve people are thought to have been killed and 20 wounded since Thursday , including two militiamen killed by Syrian troops yesterday . |
| 14 | Hundreds of people have been killed and injured and more than 170,000 displaced since fighting intensified two weeks ago . |
| 15 | Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed and 200,000 driven from their homes . |
| 16 | In fact , her mate Klono had been killed and dragged off by a leopard one night when her son Krono was about a year old . |
| 17 | No one had been killed and only 20 or so people , all on shore , even slightly injured . |
| 18 | With any luck , the majority of the rabbits will have been killed and , if everything went well and there were no snags , the population could have been very substantially reduced . |
| 19 | Those two crooks must have been killed and resurrected about seven times when they fell into all Kevin 's traps and things . |
| 20 | AT least one man has been killed and dozens seriously injured as a wave of holiday violence swept the country . |
| 21 | Of the previous four victims , three have been killed and one left paralysed . |
| 22 | ‘ Just remember , too , that a man has already been killed and another one half killed . |
| 23 | Every week we used to produce 30 mural newspapers , containing national and international news , small biographies of combatants who had been killed and information to commemorate important dates in the popular movements of our country . |
| 24 | ‘ The comment in [ the letter of 5 August 1991 ] has been somewhat overtaken by subsequent events , in particular fighting between rival elements of the United Somalia Congress which broke out in November 1991 and in which thousands of people have been killed and injured . |
| 25 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 26 | It was now four months since the twin , Judd , had been killed and , so Harry had explained , Mr Harvey had felt it his duty to find out whether , now his son was dead , the family title would die with him or , as he now seemed to think , it could be passed through the distaff side to his daughter . |
| 27 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 28 | Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house . |
| 29 | The friend , Frank , had no home to return to as his only relative , his father , had been killed and his home destroyed by a landmine during the ‘ May Blitz ’ . |
| 30 | When the firing stopped , 13 Catholic had been killed and 29 wounded , one of whom would die several weeks later . |