Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hopes of victory rose after a health authority QC appeared to concede , in answer to the judges ' questions , that regulations requiring consultations to take place had not been properly complied with . |
| 2 | Soldiers of the Special Presidential Division were flirting with a barmaid and objected when a security guard , a karate instructor identified only as Ekofo , offered her a drink . |
| 3 | AFAILURE of the signalling system — which occurred when a signal box wire that should have been removed was not , thus preventing the signal from turning to red — caused the Clapham rail disaster in which 35 people died last December 12 , according to the report of the inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hidden , QC . |
| 4 | A POLICEMAN , John Robinson , 37 , who seriously injured when a half brick was hurled through his patrol car windscreen , will be permanently brain-damaged , a court was told yesterday . |
| 5 | During the course of negotiating the sale of some etchings by his friend J. E. Laboureur to Byard , a director of Heinemann 's , Boulestin asked if a cookery book would be of any interest at that moment . |
| 6 | The split happened after a property company took over the White Hart and raised the rent from £20,000 to £37,000 a year . |
| 7 | It happened when a Chipmunk light aircraft from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire hit the ground as it tried to make an emergency landing in Wales . |
| 8 | The accident happened when a lorry jack-knifed and rolled on top of a car . |
| 9 | On the Pembrokeshire border lies Efailwen , a small village where the Rebecca riots began when a toll gate was burned in 1839 . |
| 10 | He jacked it up and watched as a station logo which meant nothing to him appeared on the screen . |
| 11 | He watched as a prison officer led a squat , muscular , aggressive looking man into the interview room and sat him down . |
| 12 | Even at this distance , in the gloom , I could see that the thing on its head that looked like a plastic bucket actually was a plastic bucket . |
| 13 | What looked like a wedding ring was wedged on her thumb . |
| 14 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 15 | There was one in America , for example , where a hundred people died because a sulphalidomide preparation was wrongly formulated , erm and the biggest disaster that has happened in this country was in fact with asthma aerosols , where they were misused . |
| 16 | Peter Snell , who was a former army explosives engineer , from Didcot in Oxfordshire died when a lorry load of mortars and shells blew up , thirty miles south of Kuwait city . |
| 17 | At least 140 people died when a ferry boat , the Moby Prince , collided with an oil tanker in thick fog off Livorno on the night of April 10 . |
| 18 | Two of the BBC documentary team , which spent a week inside the boy king 's tomb , almost died when a hotel lift crashed 21 floors to the ground . |
| 19 | Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg , but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism . |
| 20 | Seventeen people died when a Wellington bomber crashed into houses during a training exercise |
| 21 | Seventeen people died when a Wellington bomber crashed into houses during a training exercise |
| 22 | She died when a car driver racing a motorbike smashed into her car . |
| 23 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 24 | On relating the story to Mr Bailey , the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night . |
| 25 | My master waited until a kitchen boy served us , then suddenly rose , locking the great doors of the hall as well as those to the kitchen and buttery . |
| 26 | Mistakes can be costly and the author recalls one scheme where the beneficiary of a right of way waited until a house purchaser was due to move in before exercising his rights , thus deliberately causing the maximum disruption to the developer . |
| 27 | I remember an interesting speaker at a small meeting whose careful argument no one absorbed because a baby mouse appeared at his feet and washed its whiskers half way through his lecture . |
| 28 | However , another striking example of this type of mismatch arose when a student teacher CDL used a very simple program that asked children to estimate angles : it was simple to run and at the time had no documentation . |