Object

• civilian: Similarly, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed mostly civilians.

• bacterium: The high levels of nicotine in tobacco can kill bacteria.

• soldier: Brit soldier killed in Basra The Sun, UK - 16 Jul 2006 By SUN ONLINE REPORTER.

• fox: The 156 hunts registered with the Masters of Foxhounds Association met on 206 occasions and killed 157 foxes in the week ending 26th February.

• badger: Killing badgers is controversial as they are a protected species.

• hundred: Protesters who escaped say government troops fired into the crowd, killing hundreds of people.

Subject

• sniper: His Company Commander later wrote He was killed by a sniper and suffered no pain.

• bomb: Then she saw a bunch of kiddies killed by another bomb.

• shellfire: Herbert was that Other Rank, but he had not been killed by shellfire.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: Hotter than a hundred suns, the furnaces were being used to kill off the unwanted ABC Warriors.

Used with why or when

• whoever: After I get out; I will track down and kill whoever got me.

• when: Mumia was shot by police officers and almost killed when he intervened to stop his brother being beaten by the police.

Preposition: in

• crash: He was killed in an air crash in 1961.

• accident: Across the Thames Valley as a whole the numbers killed in accidents fell 13.9 % from 173 in 2000 to 149 last year.

• action: He was killed in action at Leuze Wood four months later.

• fighting: I wander how many of these men were killed in the fighting.

• battle: Many wreckers and not a few Customs men were killed in pitched battles over the booty.

• raid: By the end of the war over 1500 British citizens had been killed in air raids.

Preposition: by

• sniper: His Company Commander later wrote He was killed by a sniper and suffered no pain.

• bomb: Then she saw a bunch of kiddies killed by another bomb.