Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the car " in BNC.

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1 Where you pull into the car park ?
2 ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car .
3 If I go to the car , he 'll be waiting .
4 First I think that if I go to the car , he 'll be waiting , so I wo n't go to the car .
5 Continue until you come to the car park and the entrance to Upton Fen Nature Reserve , owned by the Norfolk Naturalists Trust .
6 ‘ Yeah , until we got in the car to come here . ’
7 If you did n't see it , it 's a tricky one but there 's a good way , we 've brought up a good point as well , if we look at the car when the car comes up , who said Polo ?
8 They could n't get back to the bank without treading on shifting , clutching , cloying marsh , which could trap them and draw them right down ; and if they stayed in the car , sooner or later they would go under with it .
9 Well if he keeps , if he looks after the car and keeps himself right och it 'll be okay but if he 's gon na mess about and wreck the car well he 's he 's no way of getting to work .
10 On Monday I put this bowl into the washing up bowl , cos it stood in the car and take this , like that , to school .
11 ‘ We 'd never seen her before , ’ said Masha , ‘ not till we got into the car . ’
12 Randolf , because he went under the car and then he off can you post my , the thing to the A A tomorrow ?
13 Before she gets into the car , she turns around and thanks me with a squeeze of her hand .
14 ‘ It 's just before you get to the car with the flashing lights on top , ’ said Dorcas slowly .
15 They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away .
16 He wished she 'd told him she was going to see her friend before he got into the car .
17 She said for when I get in the car .
18 When I got in the car and put the key in the ignition , they probably said : ‘ Right , gotcha ! ’
19 ‘ I saw him getting it out when I went to the car to get a book I 'd left there .
20 As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film .
21 Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria .
22 I called over my shoulder as I trotted towards the car .
23 It 's cold when you get in the car in n it ?
24 You 'll have to watch it do n't come off then , when you get in the car .
25 I was n't really surprised when you jumped into the car like that , you know .
26 When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her .
27 But when she got into the car at five , ready for the fifteen-mile drive across London , it would n't start .
28 Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times .
29 When they arrived at the college , it seemed even more forbidding than it had in daylight , and as she walked from the car towards the entrance , Loretta felt as though she were about to cross a threshold in time as well as space .
30 She did n't seem to have bought much ; she tossed me a box of matches as she got into the car .
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