Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , bearing in mind the casualty statistics of rear gunners , ‘ Jacko ’ was the sole survivor of the crew — perhaps because the aircraft crashed while flying too low over enemy territory . |
| 2 | A PILOT and three passengers , all Portuguese , were killed yesterday when a light aircraft crashed and burst into flames next to an airfield runway at Montargil , Portugal . |
| 3 | 38 Engineer Regiment from Claro Barracks , Ripon , search a lake where a light aircraft crashed when hit by flying wreckage . |
| 4 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 5 | On the way back to his conversation the barman punched a button on the television and suddenly they were in Texas , where folk lived and loved fit to bust and discussed it all in idiomatic but poorly synchronized Italian . |
| 6 | Li Yuan yawned and stretched as the craft descended , then looked across . |
| 7 | Li Yuan smiled and bowed his head low . |
| 8 | Suddenly , as Billy and Mary got within twenty yards of them , the water erupted The girls screamed and cowered away as large , panic stricken fish surfaced and flapped around in confusion . |
| 9 | On 9 April , the British Third Army , under Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Allenby , attacked at Arras , while farther north the Canadian Corps stormed and took Vimy Ridge . |
| 10 | But their kin survived and intermarried . |
| 11 | On one tank I had , the fish panicked and hid every time I switched on the lighting . |
| 12 | His staff glowed and pulsed as the goddess fed him energy . |
| 13 | On the 23rd August in the Europa Victory Suite of Manchester United 's Football Club , an audience of over 400 people and the media clapped and cheered the U.D.C. members when they voted unanimously against the planning application . |
| 14 | The resultant pooled concentrated urine was centrifuged and 1 ml chromatographed and assayed as before . |
| 15 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 16 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |
| 17 | You will learn how people lived and died , what has changed and what has stayed the same … the whole heritage of our human race if there ! |
| 18 | The tenor of the work so far indicates my view that any account of the rise to prominence of black sportsmen in Britain is hollow unless constant reference is made to the social conditions amidst which black people lived and live . |
| 19 | For most people though there is a curiosity about the past , about how people lived and behaved , about whether they have changed over the centuries , and this can in part be answered by archaeology . |
| 20 | The heritage of Wales ' rural life is displayed and interpreted in a vast collection of authentic re-erected buildings where the Welsh people lived and worked |
| 21 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 22 | The February sales demonstrated that Pop Art is the school with the big problem , Lichtenstein , Warhol , Wesselman and others having soared in 1988–90 on Japanese and Swedish buying . |
| 23 | Being a representative of a national race committee , I 'm often dismayed at the ne the lack of black people demonstrated or portrayed in Direct . |
| 24 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 25 | The people shouted and threw stones at me . |
| 26 | As people tried and failed , the cash on offer accumulated until it reached $17,000 on the day Ed went on court . |
| 27 | You did n't see many cars in those days and most people biked or walked . |
| 28 | There was occasional boredom , people came and went , there might be a technical hitch but more than anything there was a fascination with the moving pictures and that , of course , was the essence of the experience . |
| 29 | While the organisers tried to keep track of all those who attended the conference , many people came and went after the initial registration period . |
| 30 | People came and went , including Colquhoun and MacBryde , but not the middle-aged couple that the name ‘ the Roberts ’ had led Marsh to expect . |