Example sentences of "when fire " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airport was closed for six days last week when fire crews refused to cross picket lines by baggage handlers protesting against having the new system imposed on them . |
| 2 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy saved the lives of his younger brother and two sisters yesterday when fire broke out while they were alone in their home . |
| 3 | As far as hospital employees are concerned , Dooley ( 1981 ) sees nurses as the front line operators when fire does occur : |
| 4 | THE playwright Harold Pinter was among guests who fled in night clothes when fire broke out at a Brighton hotel yesterday . |
| 5 | Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven . |
| 6 | Cary established himself in business c .1783 at 188 Strand in London , subsequently trading at Johnson 's Court , Fleet Street ( c .1782 ) , 181 Strand ( from c .1791 ) , and 86 St James 's Street ( from January 1820 , when fire destroyed his workshop and his brother William 's adjacent premises ) . |
| 7 | A total of 87 people , many of them immigrants from central America , died in the early hours of March 25 when fire swept through the unlicensed Happy Land social club in a slum district of the Bronx , in New York City . |
| 8 | Train services on the main East Coast line were disrupted yesterday morning when fire broke out in a locomotive . |
| 9 | The premises were well alight when fire crews were called out at 2.40pm yesterday . |
| 10 | HUNDREDS of tons of potatoes had their chips yesterday when fire swept through a barn in North Yorkshire yesterday afternoon . |
| 11 | Off-duty police constable David Crowe was visiting his parents in the town 's Coalhall Avenue in October last year when fire broke out in the house next door . |