Example sentences of "[noun prp] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly , five , underwent surgery at Kings College Hospital following a dash from her home in Maghull when a donor became available . |
| 2 | In an ideal integrated scheme , cultural controls ( changes in farming habits ) and biological controls would largely supplant pesticides ; in practice , chemical control continues to be an essential component of IPM when a pest population has to be reduced rapidly to minimise financial loss . |
| 3 | Witnesses said the bus , carrying 49 Britons on a day trip from Cyprus , was driving through an underpass on the main road leading to the Pyramids of Giza when a man dropped the bomb from a bridge above . |
| 4 | The driver was forced off the A four two two near Milton Keynes when a car with flashing red lights signalled him to stop . |
| 5 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 6 | A WOMAN , said to be in her twenties , died yesterday in what an eyewitness described as a horrific accident on the M876 near Denny when a lorry struck a car . |
| 7 | South Africa was marred by the fatal accident to Tom Pryce when a marshal ran across the track : a memorable moment when a dead man 's car kept running down the straight . |
| 8 | Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder . |
| 9 | With Australian team-mate Danny Clark , he won 16 six-day races from the mid-80s until one night three years ago in Munich when a rookie Russian cannoned into him . |
| 10 | On the night of 22nd June 1957 , the fishing vessel Venus star from Portsoy , Banffshire , Scotland , was off Loch Ewe when a fire broke out in the engine-room . |
| 11 | SOME TIME AGO , DAVID BAILEY was travelling with the artist Brian Clarke on a train from Nice to Milan when a Frenchman , carrying a newspaper , entered their compartment and sat down . |
| 12 | Jean Sparse , Toddington Drive , Norton , Stockton : I was 16 years old and working in my late father 's general dealers shop in Hartlepool when a customer came in and said the King had died . |
| 13 | He had been in a pub in Hammersmith when a hypnotist jumped on to a low podium and put on a show . |
| 14 | Norma clearly recalls one day during the Battle of Britain when a number of airmen left their overcoats at the Alma , thinking they would survive the night 's mission . |
| 15 | Supplies to 20,000 people were poisoned in Cornwall when a relief delivery driver accidentally pumped 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at the Lowermoor treatment plant near Camelford on 6 July 1988 . |
| 16 | He picked up a torch and was about to board the Delos when a hand holding a pair of goggles reached out and stopped him . |
| 17 | Despite the disagreements in American policy-making circles , Japan was effectively being incorporated into an American sphere of interest ; the likelihood was that United States forces would remain in Japan when a treaty was signed and that the general peace settlement would reflect American wishes . |
| 18 | Gordon Middleton , on the right , and Alan Hill , were riding with the Vale of Aylesbury Hunt when a horse failed to clear a gate and became trapped across it . |
| 19 | A third school which was opened in 1894 was in Birmingham when a day class using oral methods was established . |
| 20 | However , in a statement on July 23 , Shamir described Assad 's response as " a phenomenon similar to what happened in Egypt with President Sadat when a revolution occurred in his concepts that ultimately led to negotiations with Israel and to peace " . |
| 21 | The living system thus contains a constant amount of C. When a plant dies it absorbs no more C and that already present begins to decay . |
| 22 | Within a single ontological cluster C one can use all the elements of S to distinguish subclasses of C. When a training set TS is a subset of C , and all the tests made on instances use only functions and predicates from S , then the invented clusters are called simple . |
| 23 | You can get mugged , you can fall off a building , as happened recently in New York when a photographer was killed photographing pigeons . |
| 24 | Fisherman Anthony Fernando , 21 , died off Sri Lanka when a garfish ( like a swordfish ) jumped out of the water and speared his neck ( Sun , 9 March 1988 ) . |
| 25 | The brothers were at Finsbury Park station on their way from Heathrow when a youth , who had been wandering aimlessly , pulled a knife and stabbed Jonathan . |
| 26 | Cheltenham swimmer Kevin Morris who 's been trying to make history by swimming the channel backstroke has missed out again … he was three and half hours out from Dover when a throat infection sunk his dreams … |
| 27 | ‘ Then one night , ’ he said thickly , ‘ about six weeks ago , I was in London when a girl in a red dress walked into the room and — ’ |
| 28 | FISTS OF FIRE FRANK Bruno was yesterday promising a hot time for his next opponent Pierre Coetzer at a Press conference in London when a fire alarm went off and the building had to be evacuated . |
| 29 | In Argentina , he was betrayed by his car , but after a bad fright in practice at Kyalami when a wheel came off , he came in second behind Denny Hulme after race-leader Jackie Stewart lost all the oil in his gear-box . |
| 30 | Spanish onions bought at a wholesale market in Birmingham were being unloaded at a depot near Evesham in Worcestershire when a worker noticed a cardboard parcel stuffed between the bags . |