Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] the car " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are blessed with any number of possibilities , especially if we take the car less than five miles , and are still finding new ones , to our great delight . |
| 2 | " What list is that ? " asked Matthew idly as he shut the car door . |
| 3 | ‘ Bugger ! ’ he said aloud as he watched the car 's tail-lights disappear into the driving rain . |
| 4 | So when you having the car back do you think ? |
| 5 | I motion him away and he glides the car twenty yards forward and round the corner . |
| 6 | I solved the problem — vaporising petrol — shortly before I changed the car , but it was determined to go with a bang . |
| 7 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 8 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 9 | He was several paces past when he heard the car doors open and realised just how outnumbered he was . |
| 10 | And off she went , driving carefully , through South London , and east , and under the river , and north , and up the A113 , towards the Garfield Centre , thinking of Brian frying up the cold boiled potatoes for himself and their son Sam , chopping parsley , frying eggs and bacon , delicious ; Brian handled the frying pan as confidently as he handled the car , eggs never broke for Brian , he had a firm grasp of the material world , of pan handles and gear levers and of her own warm body , of garden spades and wayward boilers , of carving knives and power drills and saws and scissors and invisible screws ; he treated all these things as his friends and allies , an Ideal Husband , she sometimes teased him : and yet , and yet , he spent his days and his nights teaching abstractions , he spent his time with words , words , words . |
| 11 | Now that we have the car we hope to make one or two trips at the weekend . |
| 12 | She had hoped he might arrange to come and collect her now that he had the car — and now that things were , well , serious between them . |
| 13 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 14 | ‘ How very noble , ’ Oliver said ironically as he opened the car door and stepped down into a puddle . |
| 15 | And she sits over there and she counts the cars in the street . |
| 16 | The palms of his hands were sweating and he had yawned twice since he left the car . |
| 17 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 18 | ‘ Good , ’ said Madeleine quietly as he stopped the car and pulled on the brake . |