Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the car " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wait until the driver or the passenger has got out of the car and , as they approach you , quickly reverse back down the road so that you are out of their reach and have room to manoeuvre . |
| 2 | June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel . |
| 3 | He was I think he 'd passed out in the car . |
| 4 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 5 | ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday . |
| 6 | but , not to have to drag out in the car to the solar and buy food in the supermarkets |
| 7 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 8 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 9 | Durkin had struggled out of the car helpless with laughter , delighted with all the excitement he was causing . |
| 10 | Until they had got out of the car to phone , Maxim had never seen Sims standing up . |
| 11 | Bodie had walked back to the car , and sat quietly watching the propagandist book shop , and the still-talking forms of Latowa and the young man , now inside the premises . |
| 12 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 13 | The nearest town was some distance away and Alain had driven off in the car . |
| 14 | The man with the gun had run back to the car . |
| 15 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 16 | For one thing , it had begun to rain as soon as he had climbed on to the car . |
| 17 | A man had climbed out of the car . |
| 18 | He had climbed out of the car and , leaving the driver 's door open , accompanied her to her front door to see her safely inside . |
| 19 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 20 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 21 | We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home . |
| 22 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |