Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] fire " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of these piles that caught fire , releasing the deadly polonium in the form of a gas . |
| 2 | The day went on as normal : drawing lessons , reading — philosophy again , but no ideas that caught fire in her soul . |
| 3 | Intense heat had melted and buckled the twisting frame that caught fire . |
| 4 | Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand . |
| 5 | God knows how it happened , there was n't another thing on the road , but the Jag overturned and caught fire . |
| 6 | Perhaps no one would ever know the reason , for Jerome Fanshawe 's Jaguar had skidded , crashed and caught fire five miles from the hospital where the sole survivor now lay . |
| 7 | Some of the damage was done by the thousands of casks of rum which were stored in the town , and which exploded in the heat and caught fire immediately . |
| 8 | The vessel broke up and caught fire . |
| 9 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 10 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 11 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |
| 12 | July 28 : YAK–18T crashed and caught fire 50km north of Baraul , Russia , due to pilot error . |
| 13 | August 28 : Vickers Viscount of Bouraq Indonesia Airlines suffered engine trouble and caught fire on take-off from Banjarmasin Airport , Kalimantan Island . |
| 14 | In Goldman v. Hargrave , a redgum tree on the defendant 's land was struck by lightning and caught fire in a fork eighty feet above ground . |
| 15 | Some of the petrol stuck to the back of Billie 's hair and caught fire . |
| 16 | And er they were still whistling and calling , so I went up on to the top of the bank and they it was this plantation that fell down in the warren and caught fire . |
| 17 | Their hired Vauxhall Astra which was travelling thirty miles an hour crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire . |
| 18 | Both women were killed on the M-four near Swindon when their car crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire . |
| 19 | The drama happened at Clay Bank at Great Broughton , near Stokesley , when the engine overheated and caught fire . |
| 20 | The assailants , armed with automatic rifles , burst into the dormitory and opened fire on the students . |
| 21 | ‘ Suddenly , armed soldiers broke the shop windows and opened fire on those inside , at everyone , indiscriminately . |
| 22 | Hanging beneath their horse 's bellies , Nez Perce warriors swept through the fleeing soldiers , and opened fire in their rear . |
| 23 | The Prince Charles was just about to anchor in Tongue Bay , midway along the northern coast of Scotland , on 25 March 1746 when the 24-gun Sheerness , which far outclassed her , appeared and opened fire . |
| 24 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |
| 25 | He managed to turn inside his assailant and opened fire from 200 yards , seeing white vapour trail from the Messerschmitt as it pulled away . |
| 26 | The two gunmen triggered a massive search when they fled in a stolen car and opened fire on pursuing officers . |
| 27 | The two gunmen triggered a massive search when they fled in a stolen car and opened fire . |
| 28 | Mohammed Hussein Nagdi , who resigned as Iran 's ambassador to Italy in 1982 to campaign for the government 's overthrow , was killed on his way to work when the hit squad pulled up beside his car and opened fire with a submachine gun , police said . |
| 29 | At a junction one of them stepped from the Sierra and opened fire on the police car with a sawn-off Kalashnikov rifle , said the prosecution , but the two officers were not injured . |
| 30 | According to Pedro Castro Tojín 's testimony , two men whom he recognised as agents of the Guatemalan army forced their way into his family home in the early evening of 17 March 1990 , and opened fire , hitting both himself and his wife . |