Example sentences of "died when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy at Slapton Sands in Devon , in which 700 US servicemen died when a D-Day invasion exercise went wrong , was ‘ kept quiet for 40 years , ’ he says . |
| 2 | He married the daughter of Aunes , one of the early colonists , and died when a landslide at Cabo Girão crushed his boat as he was returning from Funchal . |
| 3 | More than 2,000 people died when a quake hit the nearby island of Flores last week . |
| 4 | Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg , but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism . |
| 5 | One unfortunate Japanese worker died when a fatal punch was delivered by a robot that had received and acted on ‘ errant ’ electromagnetic signals from another device . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I just put my arms around her and squeezed her so tight I thought I 'd break her ribs , ’ said Rosemary Lodge , whose 18-year-old daughter Suzanne died when a car driven by Ann-Marie Coombes crashed . |
| 8 | Forty-seven passengers died when a British Midland Airways Boeing 737 trying a forced landing hit an embankment at Kegworth , Leics , in 1989 . |
| 9 | The 35-year-old officer almost died when a 9mm bullet fired by Robert Fallon tore through his groin , severed a main artery and left a fist-sized hole in his leg . |
| 10 | The Amsterdam horror also brought back chilling memories for the people of Lockerbie , where 270 died when a Pan Am jumbo was blasted out of the sky by a terrorist bomb nearly four years ago . |
| 11 | In 1972 at Buffalo Creek , West Virginia , 125 people were killed when a carelessly maintained dam burst ( Stern 1976 : 3 ) and at Willow Island , West Virginia , fifty-one people died when a cooling tower collapsed as a result of safety violations ( Kennedy 1978 ) . |
| 12 | , Gerard Manley ( 1844–1889 ) , poet , was born in Stratford , Essex , 28 July 1844 , the eldest in the family of six sons ( one of whom died when a year old ) and three daughters of Manley Hopkins , marine insurance adjuster and consul-general in London of the kingdom of Hawaii , and his wife Catherine , daughter of John Simm Smith , a prosperous surgeon . |
| 13 | On Oct. 2 , 128 people including 37 foreigners died when a Boeing 737 belonging to the Civil Aviation Administration hit two other aircraft on the runway during an emergency landing at Baiyun airport in Guangdong after two hijackers had ordered the crew to fly to Taiwan . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At least 22 people died when a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded on Sept. 1 in a crowded marketplace in Sainthamarathu , a village in the east populated mainly by Moslems . |
| 16 | Two years ago tomorrow a family of four died when a driver fell asleep on the A420 and collided with them . |
| 17 | It 's the resting place of 4 of the 5 youngsters who died when a speeding car went out of control in Akers Way and hit them as they played at the side of the road . |
| 18 | A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire . |
| 19 | She died when a car driver racing a motorbike smashed into her car . |
| 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 | A memorial service is to be held in Swindon for five youngsters who died when a car ploughed into them . |
| 23 | Two boys and three girls aged between seven and nineteen died when a car ran off the road in Akers Way in September last year . |
| 24 | It was in September 1991 that 5 young people died when a speeding car went out of control and hit a bench on the side of Akers Way in Swindon . |
| 25 | A judge sent the jury home early and left his courtroom to examine the spot on the Severn Bridge where two men died when a gantry collapsed and fell one hundred feet in the River Severn . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The family of a schoolboy who died when a derelict building fell on him are considering sueing for compensation . |
| 28 | Mr Bogle , who suffered from leukaemia , died when a bomb exploded under a booby-trapped piece of wood at a building yard , Belfast Crown Court heard earlier . |
| 29 | POLICE today named four people who died when a BMW car left the road and smashed into a tree . |
| 30 | In November , 1991 a UDA man and a UVF member died when a small IRA semtex bomb exploded behind a radiator in a dining room . |