noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lone gunman
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a lone gunman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dead
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The names of the deputy and the dead gunman were not released.
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In Medellin, two employees of the El Espectador newspaper were shot dead by gunmen .
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Three protestors supporting President Gamsakhurdia have been shot dead by gunmen in Tblisi.
lone
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But even proponents of the lone gunman theory acknowledge the wealth of interests served by Kabila's removal.
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A lone gunman with an apparent grudge can do great harm.
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Suddenly, a lone gunman appeared.
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Did lone gunmen commit both murders, as initial investigations concluded?
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So much for the lone gunman theory.
loyalist
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Mr Gallagher, a SinnFein member, was the first of six men murdered by loyalist gunmen in the past two days.
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If the security forces are thick on the ground and loyalist gunmen commit murder it is the result of collusion.
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Retaliation by loyalist gunmen must be avoided at all costs.
unidentified
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The unidentified gunmen have demanded a £1.2m ransom, he said.
■ VERB
kill
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Another journalist, the Batman-based correspondent of the Yeni Ulke newspaper, was killed by gunmen on Feb. 24.
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Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war.
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Police speculated that they had been killed by the same gunmen .
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Stormed Earlier, in Soweto township, south-west of Johannesburg, four people were killed when gunmen stormed into a taxi-association meeting.
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La Tribune and Le Matin said security forces later in the day had killed all the gunmen responsible.
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The children were killed when masked gunmen opened fire on the minibus taking them to school.
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Victims of the intensifying violence included two nephews of Mandela killed by gunmen at their home in Soweto on May 3.
shoot
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Lima was shot by two gunmen on a motorcycle which approached his car in Mondello, near Palermo, Sicily.
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He initially told police he had been walking down the street when he was shot by an unknown gunman .
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In Medellin, two employees of the El Espectador newspaper were shot dead by gunmen .
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Three protestors supporting President Gamsakhurdia have been shot dead by gunmen in Tblisi.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hooded gunmen burst into a home in Lima on Sunday and shot to death at least 15 people.
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Two gunmen opened fire on a bus taking children to school.
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Was President Kennedy killed by a lone gunman , or was there a conspiracy?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Four died when gunmen opened fire on a pick-up truck loaded with people near Port Shepstone in southern Natal.
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He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way, despite Gomez's future role as his executioner.
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In general, most famous Western gunmen were town people.
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In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, gunmen reportedly seized 30 workers at an electrical power plant.
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Mr Gallagher, a SinnFein member, was the first of six men murdered by loyalist gunmen in the past two days.
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Poole finally abandoned Cassidy when a gunman opened fire from the window of a nearby hotel.
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She flung herself at the gunman , who was then felled by police fire.
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They were shot by one or more gunmen ostensibly delivering a painting, business people said.