Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the north [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two crewmen of the UK Royal Air Force were killed on Aug. 17 , 1989 , when their Tornado jet crashed into the North Sea near Humberside , just two miles from the spot where three others had been killed in a mid-air collision involving similar aircraft on Aug. 14 , bringing to 24 the number of Tornados lost in British airspace since 1983 . |
| 2 | NO ‘ airworthiness abnormality ’ affected the Super Puma helicopter which crashed in the North Sea earlier this month with the loss of 11 lives including a North-East man , a preliminary accident report said yesterday . |
| 3 | THE pilot of a Bristow helicopter that crashed in the North Sea with the loss of 11 lives earlier this year has been sacked , his lawyer claimed last night . |
| 4 | A Vietnamese couple who had to leave their country and fled to the North Yorkshire market town of Kirkbymoorside 14 years ago , are returning to it to open a Chinese takeaway . |
| 5 | At night when storms lashed from the North Sea I gazed in awe at the hill where the Hunmanby Dane had built his wooden castle and yearned to enter the past . |
| 6 | Recently arrived from the North Yorks Moors Railway is the North Eastern Locomotives Reservation Groups P3 No 2392 . |
| 7 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 8 | Algae blooms , together with above average temperatures , coincided with the North Sea deaths and the deaths of humpbacks and dolphins along the US east coast in 1987 . |
| 9 | Such companies have at times faced a petroleum revenue tax rate of over 90 per cent , considerably in excess of anything they were led to expect when they first went into the North Sea . |
| 10 | A CLEVELAND man who died in the North Sea helicopter tragedy last weekend has been formally identified . |
| 11 | The battle was also a landmark in the conduct of the war , for henceforth both sides dug in and a complex line of trenches soon stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier . |
| 12 | Many had had a ‘ good war ’ , and one cure for contempt was to discover , while sitting in the Library during all night sittings , a slim volume such as How I Rowed Across The North Sea Singlehanded , by Sir Hugh Munro Lucas-Tooth . |
| 13 | They seem to have moved firstly to the coastal places of the west , and then inland along the river valleys — natural enough for groups who rowed across the North Sea and the Channel in open shallow-draught boats . |
| 14 | To determine if any excess of childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was associated with certain striking examples of population mixing in rural Scotland produced by the North Sea oil industry . |