Example sentences of "car [conj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 2 | She guessed now that it was the car that had startled the deer . |
| 3 | It was the car that had annoyed her . |
| 4 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 5 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 6 | Then she remembered the car that had interrupted their dinner on the terrace . |
| 7 | Lotus had another go at four-wheel drive the following year , this time with gas turbine power The dramatically wedged-shaped 56B was a development of the car that had come within a whisker of tinning the 1968 Indy 500 . |
| 8 | This crumpled wreck … is the car that had claimed five young lives . |
| 9 | ‘ A hundred years ago , ’ he said furiously , ‘ they designed a system to prevent cars that had broken loose from running backwards and crashing into things . |
| 10 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 11 | It was the cars that had started some new idea … |
| 12 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 13 | In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 14 | So a rumour grew up that perhaps , at the last minute , he had jumped up and caught hold of part of the car and had clambered on to it somehow . |
| 15 | No reduction in damages was made for the plaintiff 's failure to wear a seat belt even though he was found after the collision hanging out of the defendant 's car and had suffered a severe blow to the head . |
| 16 | I do remember we 'd already put his full name on the car and had to remove the last part of it . ’ |
| 17 | He told them he had bought the car but had left the Manwarings in good health . |