Example sentences of "car [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company cars make up 60 per cent of the sales . |
| 2 | But an elderly man who lives nearby said the illegally parked cars make crossing the road extremely hazardous . |
| 3 | Beneath them cars sit bumper to bumper in a haze of exhaust fumes . |
| 4 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 5 | Cars tend to roll gravel on to the pavement . |
| 6 | The rest of the car will also stand up to hard use as well , and diesel cars tend to have bigger batteries and more powerful electrical systems to cope with the greater demands of starting . |
| 7 | Smaller animals tend to have higher metabolic rates , just as the engines of small cars tend to turn over at a higher rate than those of larger cars . |
| 8 | It must be horrible for them when cars crash outside their homes . |
| 9 | Extremely fast cars crash violently . |
| 10 | The normality of Highly dangerous cars crash violently in comparison with ? |
| 11 | Highly fast cars crash violently shows that the mis-match in the latter is between highly and fast , not highly and cars , or highly and crash , etc . |
| 12 | Cars crash easier . |
| 13 | Cars crash : |
| 14 | Thank God , it was n't he who had to break the news to the woman that her husband and her daughter had both been killed in the car crash that had fractured her skull . |
| 15 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 16 | It was only after his death in a car crash that details of his fortune were revealed . |
| 17 | GAME show host Leslie Crowther is fully conscious again , five weeks after the car crash that put him in a coma . |
| 18 | Kirov 's bodyguard , not present when Kirov was murdered , was killed in a car crash the day after Kirov 's murder . |
| 19 | He was injured in a car crash this week . |
| 20 | Cars purr back and forth along the expressways , bearing the Bernsteins to dinner with the Chases , the Chases to the Waylands , the Waylands for a Christmas morning drink with the Bakers . |
| 21 | Their BMW cars purr through the streets of the capital , La Paz . |
| 22 | Analysis Why current cars lack concept car flair 17 |
| 23 | Following his survey of relatively low-income home owners , he argues that the domestic division of labour within homes is indeed ‘ strongly patterned by gender , with child care ( where relevant ) , laundry and house cleaning being strongly associated with women while gardening and looking after the car tend to be predominantly male activities ’ . |
| 24 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 25 | Star attraction : The gull-winged doors of the De Lorean car make a perfect shelter from the rain for Marianne Brockwell ( left ) , from Western Australia , and Till Verkerk , from the Netherlands . |
| 26 | Enjoys cinema , eating out and expensive cars Send a message and a photo and make a dream come true . |
| 27 | Chalky footprints in the back of the car suggest two men joined Mr Abberley , occupying the rear seats . |
| 28 | Private cars guzzle about 7% of the world 's commercial ( non-industrial ) energy or 17% of the oil used each year . |
| 29 | Cars sleep at the kerbsides . |
| 30 | Both the human body and the motor car interact with the environment . |