Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [Wh adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH tourists fled yesterday when a gunman rammed his jeep into Australia 's Parliament House at Canberra . |
| 2 | And you mentioned then how a floppy disk , that 's a sort of disk storage device , can be used to get a book printed . |
| 3 | ANGRY builder Jim Garrad told yesterday how a row over money shattered his close friendship with Fun Minister David Mellor . |
| 4 | TWENTY-ONE people were killed and 30 injured yesterday when a coach carrying elderly German tourists hit a car and overturned . |
| 5 | A YOUNG Portadown businessman told today how a two-foot long piece of shrapnel which missed him by inches ended up embedded in an employee 's leg . |
| 6 | THE ROW over the closure of Strathclyde outdoor centres worsened yesterday when an education official admitted that teachers at one centre had been given only eight days ' warning that they faced losing their posts . |
| 7 | A POLICE training exercise backfired yesterday when a mock gun siege appeared too real . |
| 8 | THE market value of Ross Consumer Electronics , the troubled hi-fi and audio manufacturer , quadrupled yesterday when a new management team led by Roger Shute , the chairman of construction machinery company BM Group , moved in . |
| 9 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 10 | The damaged car in which a senior RUC officer , Supt Alwyn Harris , ( right ) died yesterday when a bomb exploded under it . |
| 11 | A JOYRIDER aged 21 died yesterday when a stolen car somersaulted into a garden after a 60mph police chase in Bristol . |
| 12 | A joyrider of 21 died yesterday when a stolen car somersaulted into a garden following a 60mph police chase in Bristol . |
| 13 | FOUR young brothers died yesterday when a blaze swept through the family home in London . |
| 14 | TWO people died yesterday when a single-engined training plane from the British Aerospace flying college at Prestwick , Ayrshire , crashed in a field near Kirkoswald , Ayrshire . |
| 15 | Pressure increased yesterday when a Lords report attacked ‘ excessive ’ government criticism of the draft Social Charter and Tory members of the European Parliament complained that the Government was falsely claiming their support . |
| 16 | THE 64-day Strangeways riot trial ended yesterday when a jury at Manchester Crown Court returned the last of their verdicts on eight former inmates . |