I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car crash/accident ( also a car wreck American English )
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He was involved in a car crash.
a car hits sth/crashes into sth
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I saw the car leave the road and hit a tree.
a clap/crash/crack of thunder (= one extremely loud sound )
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Lightning flickered across the sky, followed seconds later by a loud crack of thunder.
a computer crashes (= suddenly stops working )
a crash course informal (= in which you learn a great deal in a very short time )
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A husband was given a crash course in how to deliver a baby by a midwife on the phone.
a crash diet (= a very sudden and strict attempt to lose weight )
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It’s better to lose weight gradually than to go on a crash diet.
a motorway crash
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Six people were killed in a motorway crash.
a plane crash
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Over 200 people died in the plane crash.
a plane crashes
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Their plane crashed shortly after take-off.
a rail crash
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Police have named four more victims of the Selby rail crash.
a train crash ( also a train wreck American English )
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Ten people were killed in the train crash.
an accident/crash victim
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The crash victims were rushed to hospital.
crash and burn
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His bid for the presidency finally did its crash-and-burn.
crash barrier
crash course
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a crash course in Spanish
crash diet
crash helmet
crash landing
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He was forced to make a crash-landing in the desert.
crash/emergency landing (= a sudden landing caused by a problem with the engine etc )
horrific crash/accident/attack etc
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a horrific plane crash
the crash site (= where a plane etc crashed )
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Wreckage was seen 200 metres away from the crash site.
thunder crashes/booms
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Thunder crashed overhead, waking the baby.
waves crash (= fall noisily )
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Huge waves crashed down on us.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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And it crashed back into me at high speed.
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First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower, sending it crashing back into the trees.
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But this day had sent my spirits and my ego crashing back down to earth, or rather water.
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His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth by a 3-0 Tranmere victory, however.
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The door burst inward and crashed back against the wall.
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With another blow from his forearm, he sent him crashing back down the cockpit.
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The rifle's heavy brass butt crashed back into his shoulder.
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Slowly, she heaved herself out of the sand and then, with a sickening crack she crashed back again.
down
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If the monetary system topples the economic system will also come crashing down .
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The indexes came crashing down , making losers out of many neophyte capitalists gambling that prices would shoot up for ever.
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The gay and lesbian rights movement has finally brought those strictures crashing down .
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Then the carrier top will slip off your head and crash down and crush your wrists.
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Juanito was ready for him, and the Kalashnikov crashed down at Trent's calf.
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Miguel watched as big chunks of building came crashing down just beyond the engines.
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Be careful not to push the unit in too far or it will crash down on to the floor of the casing.
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Men jumped free as the gates crashed down .
in
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He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door.
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The Jaguar is reported to have crashed in a distant country, mad as hell.
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Fighting against the wind we ran along the beach and watched a steel grey North Sea crashing in .
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Encased in dry-suits, they struggled out into the bay to come crashing in on their boards.
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Six-year-old Garry answered it, only to be knocked flying as two policemen came crashing in .
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The relief crashed in around her.
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Back at the other end, those waves of Lincoln attacks were still crashing in .
out
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I crashed out on the bed before I got the chance.
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Some people are able to crash out completely after skiing.
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The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day.
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Long-time leader Badrakhani crashed out at the fence, bringing down close fourth Rochester.
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The bells crashed out again, I went quietly into the Church myself, carrying Heather.
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He switched all the door and window alarms on before going to bed and crashing out .
through
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Most river tourists travel in big noisy motor rigs, which crash through all but the biggest rapids without difficulty.
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We were allowed a split second to brace for its impact before crashing through .
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It crashed through the barrier and then something horrible began.
■ NOUN
aircraft
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This could arise if an aircraft crashed and there was damage to houses in the area.
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No mention was made of the other eleven persons on board and no mention of how the aircraft had crashed .
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Read in studio Police have now named the three rugby fans who were killed when their light aircraft crashed into a field.
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Probably the corpses of Army pilots killed in a 1956 aircraft crash .
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The aircraft that crashed Saturday was listed eight times in the data.
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Realising that the aircraft had crashed , two witness made their way to the wreckage in order to assist the pilot.
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Ferris took the decision to abandon the aircraft , which crashed at 1205 at Oxborough, Norfolk.
barrier
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It crashed through the barrier and then something horrible began.
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After the catch, he crashed hard into the barrier but held on to the ball.
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Hakkinen was taken to the circuit for a routine check after suffering minor concussion when his car crashed into a barrier .
car
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The normality of Highly dangerous cars crash violently in comparison with?
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She struck a parked car and crashed into the building, police said.
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Then the police car had crashed into a fence.
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Prime example: The Oct. 13 People, with its latest Diana cover, six weeks after the dreadful car crash .
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Four were hurt when their car crashed off the A66 on the westbound carriageway near the Elton turn-off just outside Stockton.
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All the trucks and cars started crashing into one another, too.
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A boy was arrested after one car crashed .
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Hakkinen was taken to the circuit for a routine check after suffering minor concussion when his car crashed into a barrier.
computer
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The cancer research computer system crashed , halting vital research and ran up a bill of £10,000 making the calls.
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And we forget that all these computers can crash with one shudder of an earthquake.
defeat
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Eastwood's try four minutes later sent Leeds crashing to their sixth defeat in nine matches.
door
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Suddenly the door crashed open and the hall was full of people, loud with voices.
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I called to Dad but he didn't hear me; instead he sent another door crashing down.
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The door burst inward and crashed back against the wall.
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I'd made maybe ten yards when the door crashed open, and some grey edges appeared in the darkness before me.
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Flying past Endill he hurtled through a door , crashing into the room beyond.
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She could hear him singing, if you could call it that, just before the front door crashed open downstairs.
earth
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But this day had sent my spirits and my ego crashing back down to earth , or rather water.
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Perhaps the moon would spin out of its orbit and come crashing into the earth .
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A good autumn wind would bring the whole edifice crashing to earth .
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Instead, the Spartans came crashing to Earth .
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His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth by a 3-0 Tranmere victory, however.
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Unlike Marlowe, he acknowledges time as an all powerful element which brings such fantasies crashing down to earth .
flight
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His attempted flight involved crashing about an apartment complex parking lot, allegedly putting the lives of officers and residents in danger.
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Some suspended flight display monitors also crashed to the floor.
floor
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Both men hurtled on over the top of Barbara in a tangle of limbs, crashing to the office floor .
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The statues on either side of Fenn crashed to the floor and he fell with them.
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Just then, from the hallway came a roar as a stack of empty orange crates crashed to the floor .
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Be careful not to push the unit in too far or it will crash down on to the floor of the casing.
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In their bedroom something crashed to the floor , which immediately woke one of the twins who began to howl.
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Overhead lights crashed to the auditorium floor and members of the audience bolted for exits.
ground
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And listen: this is how I felt as my grandad's block came crashing into the ground .
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Some marveled and some mourned, especially when the great elm was brought crashing to the ground .
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It was then that the bullet flew past him, hitting the brass cross and sending the crucifix crashing to the ground .
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The stammering policeman spun around, tripped on the rusty pot, and all but crashed to the ground .
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The rest of it crashed to the ground and the teachers collapsed in a heap on the floor.
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I crashed to the ground , picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.
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Chimneys crashed to the ground , bringing roof tiles with them, but the insurance companies will replace those.
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Then it crashed to the ground and died, no explosions, no flames reaching to the sky.
helicopter
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The helicopter crashed in June 1994 with the loss of all four crew and 25 intelligence officers from Northern Ireland on board.
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A similar model of transport helicopter crashed in 1977 in the West Bank, killing 54 paratroopers.
home
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Berwick crashed at home to Newcastle last Saturday, but staged a quick recovery with a last-heat win at Glasow.
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Ann-Marie Coombes was 16 when she crashed driving home from a pub.
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Northallerton surprisingly crashed 52 at home to Easington, after being level at half time.
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It must be horrible for them when cars crash outside their homes .
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Thirteen-year-old Joseph McKernan died when the car he was in crashed near his Carrickmore home .
jet
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That's the same as a full jumbo jet crashing at Heathrow every day of the week and two on Sunday.
market
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Then, with-out warning, the world oil markets crashed .
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And as the Saatchi shares peaked ahead of the 1987 stock market crash the seeds of its financial decline had already been sown.
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The Breeze never mentioned the stock market crash .
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What does it mean that a market has crashed ?
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My father found himself without an income about the time the stock market crashed .
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That was fine; everyone at Salomon expected the market to crash .
mountain
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According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face.
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It crashed around the mountain walls as if it would split them in two and she never heard the plane arrive.
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Had the airplane crashed into the mountain , it would have cut a swath through the trees.
plane
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Just half a mile from where the plane crashed , members of the public were attending a lambing opening day.
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They also can model what happens when weapons are damaged, as when a plane carrying them crashes .
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The amazing picture was taken by a Mirror reader seconds before the plane crashed .
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And its hoped this will reveal exactly why the plane crashed so close to the airport.
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We might imagine a single-seater plane crashing in the desert because the pilot has been taken ill and died.
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The worst was in Paris, where storms caused four planes to crash .
rock
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Get a friend to raise the blade vertically upwards to simulate crashing into a hidden rock in the stopper.
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Not only missed, but crashed into the rocks like one of the nearby surfers falling off the crest of a wave.
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From here I watch a patrol of pelicans skim the ocean surface while waves crash against the rocks .
sea
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He attacked one Ju87 from behind, breaking away as the tail broke off his victim and it crashed into the sea .
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He then broke away as Lambert was also firing at this aircraft, and watched it crash into the sea .
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Some such understanding, or rather incomprehension, blurred my sight, filled my head with the crashing of the blackest sea .
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Two weeks later a Jaguar crashed into the sea off Nairn, though the pilot ejected in time.
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But his three-second, 89-metre flight ended in disaster when his £700 glider was wrecked as it crashed into the sea .
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One by one, the concrete weighted drums were winched up and then sent crashing into the sea .
thunder
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She then literally jumped in her seat as a huge peal of thunder crashed directly overhead.
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Lightning forked overhead, illuminating the camp like day, and thunder crashed deafeningly through the deep darkness that followed.
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The thunder crashed , the lightning flared, and the rain came down in torrents.
tree
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I attempted to explain the semiotics of George of the Jungle, feckless would-be Tarzan, for ever crashing into the nearest tree .
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First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower, sending it crashing back into the trees .
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Artillery began to crash into the tree lines, and artillery flares fell, as well.
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Several weeks ago Victor came crashing down out of a tree and on to his back.
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Some had crashed in the trees .
wall
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Waiting for the ball and chain Come crashing through the wall .
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But he never had control of the ball and dropped it as he crashed into the wall .
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He says they crashed into a wall .
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Charlie crashed into a wall and bounced off it like a rubber rhino.
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An oil drum was kicked away, rolling and crashing into the wall beside her.
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Here, all night long, synthetic waves crash tirelessly on to walls awash with projected images while loud music drowns out thought.
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He crashed against the wall then fell, rolled the last few stairs to the hallway.
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The door burst inward and crashed back against the wall .
window
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The surf was crashing outside my window and I was caressing a sentence at around 1 a.m. when the phone rang.
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Riney decided to make a run for it and escaped, crashing through a glass window in the process.
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A bullet went crashing through the rear window , shattering the glass behind me.
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It came crashing through the window .
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Rocks crashed through the window and bottles broke against the doors.
■ VERB
bring
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The 50-year-old actress is struggling to come to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her.
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Some marveled and some mourned, especially when the great elm was brought crashing to the ground.
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The gay and lesbian rights movement has finally brought those strictures crashing down.
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A good autumn wind would bring the whole edifice crashing to earth.
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His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth by a 3-0 Tranmere victory, however.
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Another quick defeat will bring them crashing down.
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Unlike Marlowe, he acknowledges time as an all powerful element which brings such fantasies crashing down to earth.
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What is the mechanism that brings capitalism crashing down?
cause
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But this is unreliable, and can cause the machine to crash .
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The worst was in Paris, where storms caused four planes to crash .
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Such a war, if it went badly, might well cause stockmarkets to crash again.
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He stressed again that any conclusion about what caused the plane to crash during a light snowstorm is still months away.
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Script that works fine with Netscape can cause Internet Explorer to crash , and vice versa.
come
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Waiting for the ball and chain Come crashing through the wall.
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The indexes came crashing down, making losers out of many neophyte capitalists gambling that prices would shoot up for ever.
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If the monetary system topples the economic system will also come crashing down.
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On Friday, more than 60, 000 cubic feet came crashing down each second.
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If she pulled they would come crashing down on top of her, said Mr Wakerley.
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When this hope came crashing down that summer, I was totally unaware that anything terrible had happened to her.
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And listen: this is how I felt as my grandad's block came crashing into the ground.
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Miguel watched as big chunks of building came crashing down just beyond the engines.
die
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He died in 1912 after crashing into the ocean off Santa Monica, California.
hear
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She could hear her heart crashing in her ears.
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She was in bed when she heard a crashing noise in the kitchen.
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She heard it crash to the bottom of the stairs, and felt the floor quiver as it gained on her.
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In the dense foliage around us I heard the mortars crashing heavily, shaking the air, searching for us.
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Outside, we could hear the sea crashing on the shingle.
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I could hear things crashing inside the house.
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From his room Ansel could hear the waves crashing on Baker Beach.
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It was near the ocean and Heather could hear the waves crashing on the reef from where she lay in the bed.
send
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It was then that the bullet flew past him, hitting the brass cross and sending the crucifix crashing to the ground.
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Occasionally, comets even get bumped into orbits that send them crashing into the sun.
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First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower, sending it crashing back into the trees.
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Slamming on the brakes, our driver was unable to evade the animal, and sent it crashing along the pavement.
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I called to Dad but he didn't hear me; instead he sent another door crashing down.
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With another blow from his forearm, he sent him crashing back down the cockpit.
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From there the Springboks swept upfield, stole back possession and sent Werner Swanepoel crashing over.
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Donna sent the Volvo crashing into the Audi again, then shifted up through the gears and drove off.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
almighty din/crash/row etc
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And certainly there would be the most almighty row if Clarke got the push.
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Before he got half way, they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor.
crash/collide/smash etc head-on
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But that image collided head-on with life last month.
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He and Carter were doomed to collide head-on .
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Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened, two trains collided head-on killing four people and injuring 22.
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The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
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They can collide head-on with what we believe to be right.
sickening thud/crash/sound etc
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Her heart took up a sickening thud.
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One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.
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Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.
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Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.
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They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He lost control of his car at the first bend and crashed.
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Hundreds of hospital records were wiped out when the network crashed.
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I installed the new program and my computer crashed.
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My computer crashed, and we couldn't get it working again.
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Rick crashed his bike before he'd finished paying for it.
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The bus crashed into an embankment before bursting into flames.
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The cymbals crashed, and the symphony came to an end.
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The tire blew, causing him to crash the car.
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We crashed Stella's party last Friday.
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Witnesses say the jet crashed shortly after takeoff.
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You can crash at our place if you can't get a ride home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few minutes later, a wall of water crashed over the lip of the Falls and Niagara was in business again.
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First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower, sending it crashing back into the trees.
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He stumbled backwards and struck a bed screen that crashed to the floor, bringing him with it.
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Most river tourists travel in big noisy motor rigs, which crash through all but the biggest rapids without difficulty.
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Since some airplanes and trains do crash , when does fear about traveling in them become a phobia?
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The Army set up emergency hotlines for inquiring parents but the system crashed several hours later because of a flood of calls.
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The utility takes 22K and crashed our test system on several occasions.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fatal
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There were rumours of a fatal coach crash .
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It was the first fatal crash in the airliner's 31-year history.
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Officials are still trying to piece together what happened before the fatal crash Sunday.
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Some who witnessed the fatal crash from the stands in Daytona made the 500-mile trip to North Carolina to pay homage there.
horrific
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If the Piper Alpha disaster or one of the horrific plane crashes are coming to mind, think again.
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Doctors feared he could be permanently brain-damaged after an horrific motorway crash .
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Willis is David, a security guard who emerges unscathed from a horrific train crash that kills everyone else.
loud
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Suddenly there was a loud crash .
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A loud crash could be heard from the room and the sound of wailing drifted into the courtroom, startling onlookers.
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A moment later there was a loud crash aft as some one rear-ended me.
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There was a terrible cry, and a loud crash .
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Lightning flashed in the sky, and there was a loud crash of thunder.
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After only three or four paces, a loud crash came from behind me.
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Suddenly, I heard a loud crash near me, scaring me out of my wits.
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There was a loud crash , as the box fell into the sea.
plane
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But then the plane crash happened and now I may retire even sooner.
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Redding was just 26 when he died in a 1967 plane crash near Madison, Wis.
stock
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The up side of a stock market crash is imagining the billions lost when Microsoft falls that much.
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Elaine Garzarelli became a celebrity for calling the 1987 stock market crash .
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Social Security grew out of the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression.
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Naturally, stock market crashes and recessions end up tossing businesses into bankruptcy court and throwing people out of work.
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After taking a drubbing in the 1987 stock market crash , Schwab looked to the booming mutual fund industry to revive earnings.
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The model is used to forecast economic growth and to estimate the potential effects of sudden shocks like a stock crash .
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Coordinated monetary and fiscal policies put in place to offset the effects of the stock market crash quickly accelerated the global economy.
■ NOUN
air
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He lost his only son Jay, 26, in an air crash and his first wife Connie drowned in Antigua.
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However, San Diego has only experienced one major air crash in its history.
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It is now 33 years since the last major air crash in Ayrshire and we must pray that there is never another.
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At the same time, the number of infants killed in commercial air crashes is extremely low.
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There have been three elections since 1988 when General Zia ul Haq died in an unexplained air crash .
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One ambulanceman compared the carnage to an air crash .
airplane
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I probably looked as though I had been in an all-day airplane crash .
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Palma was arrested last year, along with dozens of federal police who were protecting him after an airplane crash .
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They always die in airplane crashes or do too many drugs at the end of it.
barrier
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William Farrell had seen a Renault 25 car parked beside a crash barrier as he drove past.
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It came down against the crash barrier .
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They blame his death on a faulty motorway crash barrier .
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And the family blames a faulty motorway crash barrier .
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Now the council is waiting for the car parks firm to solve the crash barrier problem.
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Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July.
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It ploughed off the motorway, behind the motorway bridge crash barrier , and into the concrete upright.
car
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When faith can cost a life: the car crash victim who refused to be given blood.
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A car crash , an earthquake, a burning factory are much better.
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About four months after I went down, John was involved in a car crash .
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It was the car crash again.
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Rade Markovic is being questioned about a car crash in 1999 in which opposition leader Vuk Draskovic was injured.
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His death in a 1956 car crash brought his career to an abrupt halt when he was just 26.
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In a week, his wife was killed in a car crash .
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She was killed in a car crash on the way to the meeting.
helicopter
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And he, too, would later die in a helicopter crash on his way to a race in Talladega.
helmet
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This time the attackers were young and wearing crash helmets with visors.
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Maybe they could have used crash helmets .
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Never seen him without his crash helmet on; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew.
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The answer: wear crash helmets .
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In a number of countries for some years, the wearing of crash helmets by motor cyclists has been obligatory.
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Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike, but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet .
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They live mostly on the forest canopy and have white fur crash helmets with black faces and black ears peeping out.
landing
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He also survived five crash landings .
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An unnecessary signal: the radios had been dead since the crash landing .
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He says that wasn't bad for a crash landing .
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Read in studio A glider pilot has suffered a broken leg in a crash landing at an R-A-F base.
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This could and did result in nasty crash landings which could set the bombs off.
market
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The retail business, which is essential for the maintenance of adequate market liquidity, declined after the 1987 stock market crash .
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Elaine Garzarelli became a celebrity for calling the 1987 stock market crash .
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This hypothesis was investigated by re-estimating the preferred equation up to 1987 Q2 prior to the stock market crash .
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Social Security grew out of the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression.
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The section has serviced these contracts through good times and bad - remember the stock market crash in 1987?
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The fund tumbled nearly 40 % in the 1987 market crash and by a similar percentage in early 1990.
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The up side of a stock market crash is imagining the billions lost when Microsoft falls that much.
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Coordinated monetary and fiscal policies put in place to offset the effects of the stock market crash quickly accelerated the global economy.
rail
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He was in the Lockington rail crash near Beverley, East Yorkshire in 1986.
road
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The policies they sell offer cash payouts in the event of injuries, disability or death sustained in a road crash .
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Only a short time before his death in a road crash , I did an item with that fine singer Dickie Valentine.
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It's a match dedicated to devoted footballer, Louise Barry, who died in a road crash .
site
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All three occupants suffered multiple injuries and were certified dead at the crash site by a medical practitioner.
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Two views of the crash site .
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When they learned of the crash , his brother and father came to the crash site .
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Much of the crash site in the Grampian hills has now been cleared.
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I am looking for unit markings for the second aircraft, personal accounts of the crash and photos of the crash site .
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They were warned it might fly over the crash site .
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An engine from one of the vans was found more than 120 feet from the crash site .
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Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he'd been expecting a longer sentence.
train
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Two people were killed in a train crash at Bellgrove and four at Newton on similar single-lead junction lay-outs.
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To highlight the risk of such accidents, the association filmed several simulated train crashes in Chula Vista this month.
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Yesterday's train crash near Selby, North Yorkshire, was clearly a tragic consequence of chance and deadly events.
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Relatives of 20 people who died in the Paddington train crash in 1999 have received compensation payouts of up to £750,000.
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He added that he had made that decision in spite of an embargo on similar junctions after the Bellgrove train crash two years earlier.
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These troubled souls are mostly killed in the train crash .
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It was ten years ago when her parents had died, in a train crash .
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In the short term, next week's budget crunch is more like a toy train crash rather than the real thing.
victim
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When faith can cost a life: the car crash victim who refused to be given blood.
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Local hospitals were taken off the alert for crash victims .
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Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered some one in the stylish thriller Shattered.
■ VERB
cause
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Air accident investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash .
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Zanardi took the lead Sunday and held it through a lap-seven restart, which was caused by a crash by Paul Tracy.
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Zffla, which causes nasty crashes in Internet Explorer.
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Still, concern about home-buying is why Alexander charges that eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would cause a real-estate crash .
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The banners themselves aren't usually a hindrance, but sometimes the mechanism of getting them to you can cause nasty crashes .
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No one knows for sure what caused the crash .
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Rescuers sent out requests for supplies of drugs and were hampered reaching the injured because of tailbacks caused by earlier crashes .
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It was not immediately clear what caused the crash in nearly impassable terrain near the Courthouse Bay boat basin at Camp Lejeune.
die
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One crew member ejected but was later found drowned, the other did not eject and died in the crash .
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And he, too, would later die in a helicopter crash on his way to a race in Talladega.
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In what year did he die in a plane crash ? 3. 3.
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When Brayton died in a crash during practice, Ongais was asked by car owner John Menard to step in.
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Name the two famous rock stars who died in the crash with Buddy. 4. 4.
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Barley died in a plane crash in Orlando last summer.
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Other aircrew who died in the crash were ... In Lyneham, the transport planes were flying again today.
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She was one of 37 people to die in the crash .
happen
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But then the plane crash happened and now I may retire even sooner.
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The Sunday morning crash happened near a country road about 25 miles southwest of Portland.
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Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour.
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But once your anger has subsided, realise that you allowed the crash to happen .
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A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way - i.e. the crash is repeatable.
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Seven people were injured in the crashes which happened during the rush hour on the northbound carriageway at the Fortwilliam junction.
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The crash happened after a high-speed mainline train smashed into a freight service, near Selby, north Yorkshire.
hear
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As Philip ran across to her he heard a crash .
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I heard a crash , and around a corner walks this ewe.
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I was returning to the house with a mixing drum when I heard the crash .
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I heard crashes of falling trees, and the grinding and growling of skidders hauling logs.
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They heard the crash , and saw smoke rise from the forward quarter of the Genoese round ship.
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From there, he heard the crash on the ground floor.
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When he heard the crash of glass downstairs, he began to shiver.
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On hearing the crash neighbours immediately rushed out to help.
injure
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Voice over Richard Latkowsky from Witny was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash several years ago.
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Car crash: Three people were injured in a car crash at a North York Moors beauty spot.
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His girlfriend, Susan Wormsley, who was seriously injured in the crash is still in hospital.
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Nine died and 11 were injured in that crash , when a train hit a van on a level crossing.
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Voice over Shaun Gooch, who was injured in the crash , was arrested on the day of his release from hospital.
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Read in studio A pregnant woman and her three-year-old son have been injured in a head-on crash involving a stolen car.
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Three people died and 10 were injured in a four-vehicle crash at Stonham, near Ipswich, Suffolk, yesterday.
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Voice over Three people who were in the car at the time were injured in the crash , one of them seriously.
involve
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About four months after I went down, John was involved in a car crash .
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Police said alcohol was involved in the crash .
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Police in Gloucester also followed a Ford Escort which was involved in a crash .
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Two people were killed in a train crash at Bellgrove and four at Newton on similar single-lead junction lay-outs.
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More children and young adults are killed by crashes than by any other cause.
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More than four and a half thousand people were killed last year in crashes that could have been avoided.
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She was killed in a car crash on the way to the meeting.
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In a week, his wife was killed in a car crash .
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She had been grounded two years ago -- just months after the other female pilot was killed in a carrier crash .
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Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash .
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Lise marries Michael, who is killed in a car crash .
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He was one of a number of witnesses who described their view of events leading up to the crash in Swindon last year.
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A pilot's memory for the events leading up to a crash , say, may be totally blocked.
survive
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He also survived five crash landings.
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The pilot and a female passenger survived the crash near Skagway, 85 miles north of Juneau.
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Of the 40 people on board. 6 survived the crash but no one lived more than a few days.
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In this tale, Tony the Wonder Horse miraculously survives the crash .
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Mr Marchant's 6 year old step-daughter, Michelle O'Donnell survived the crash .
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The instruments are in two different boxes with the idea that at least one would survive a crash .
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They'd just survived a crash and had over-reacted.
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An estimated 2, 500 people have survived crashes because their cars were equipped with air bags.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Both drivers were injured in the crash .
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Her husband died in a plane crash in 1981.
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Ira Louvin was killed in a crash in Montana that also took the lives of six other people.
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Luckily, I sold my shares just before the crash .
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The stock market crash made me suspicious of those type of insurance schemes.
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The Wall Street Crash was disastrous for many American businessmen.
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The whole tray of dishes fell to the floor with a crash .
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There was a loud crash in the bedroom and my dad started yelling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the Paris crash was a reminder that it can do so with the most catastrophic results.
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Does it depend on the statistical probability of a crash ?
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It was the smoke, an autopsy revealed, that killed Evan, not injuries from the crash .
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Name the two famous rock stars who died in the crash with Buddy. 4. 4.
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The court heard that the crash happened at Pentwyn, Cardiff, after the three celebrated Coombes' first job.