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gunned

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Past of gun

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When Laust and Peter do finally find each other, it is only for a moment as Laust is gunned down trying to carry a jibbering Didrich to safety.

The weekly magazine became a household name when two Islamist brothers gunned down 12 people at its offices.

Dale, who had never been in trouble with the police, was gunned down as he chatted with friends in the street and was found collapsed in an alleyway off Farnborough Road in Miles Platting.

In a world where even the Tory prime minister's wife has been gunned with an ankle dolphin, you might think that an absence of ink was more identifiable than a lack of it.

In March, an Iraqi immigrant who had recently arrived in the US was gunned down outside his apartment in Dallas while taking pictures of his first snowfall.

"We've seen over many years lies, misinformation and smears during the family's attempt to find the truth and justice and answers about how an innocent young man on his way to work was gunned down by police officers".

Bobby Moffett was gunned down in front of shoppers on the Shankill Road, Belfast, on 28 May.

AA Gill – food critic, author and all-round friend of Clarkson – angered animal rights groups five years ago with a column about how he'd gunned down a baboon while on safari in Tanzania.

Hearing, on N.P.R., that masked Taliban gunmen gunned  down a 14-year-old girl for publicly speaking out about her desire for an education, had that effect.

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On October 28th, gunmen burst into a church in eastern Pakistan and machine-gunned the congregation, killing at least 15 people, including the minister and several children.

There have been 18 big terrorist attacks against them since 2002; from Kabul to Jakarta angry young men have bombed five-star establishments and machine-gunned their guests.So next time you fix your wake-up call and slip beneath sheets that are folded according to a manual, ask yourself what you are getting into.

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