Sentence examples for failed to kill her from inspiring English sources

-- and he failed to kill her.

But the bullet, which passed through its target's head and neck before resting in her shoulder, failed to kill her.

His behaviour that morning was undoubtedly brave, comparable in some ways to Margaret Thatcher's decision in 1984 to go ahead with a speech to her party only hours after a terrorist bomb had narrowly failed to kill her.

She did that despite her aides' appeals for caution in the wake of a double suicide bombing that narrowly failed to kill her on the night of her return from exile in October.

One detail that is notably omitted is that Minns, who has a notable Texan drawl, fled the US in the 1980s when his ex-lover Barbra Piotrowski was shot by hired men who failed to kill her but inflicted wounds that left her wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.

Connor kills Jasmine after Angel manages to break her hold over the city but fails to kill her.

When the story's wicked queen, driven wild with envy, fails to kill her beautiful step-daughter with a corset laced tightly enough to suffocate, she tries another method of murder: "Then, with the art of witchcraft, which she understood, she made a poisoned comb," the story goes.

The small strokes that failed to kill Anne succeeded in progressively robbing her of expressive verbal ability, a particularly cruel fate for a woman whose life and thought until that time had been formed and communicated by a constant stream of language.

Investigators said the 65-year-old husband of the dead woman told them that he strangled her and tried but failed to kill himself in what he described as an aborted suicide pact.

Having failed to kill himself, Li fled.

But thalidomide did not kill bacteria; in fact, it failed to kill anything at all, even at massive doses.