Example sentences of "car was [prep] the " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	When his car was past the missile launchers , past the guards , he demanded speed .
2	As he 'd told Alison , spitting and scratching were nothing new but that was mainly when the car was on the road .
3	‘ The car was on the wrong side of the road travelling fast .
4	His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday .
5	Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense .
6	His official car was at the kerb .
7	At 8.30 , the cyclist was arriving at the finish , the motorbike had arrived 5 mins before ( but note , no time had been taken in finding a parking place , which would normally be the case ) ; the car was at the Morrison St — Lothian Road junction , and the bus had taken ten minutes to reach George IV Bridge , less than a mile .
8	Cos , I say the car was down the road .
9	My car was in the air , flying …
10	Washing hung on the line outside and their £10,000 car was in the drive .
11	But Frederick Bissett detested walking , and because his Sara 's car was in the garage , and his own car sat outside overnight , he condemned himself to five minutes of scraping the ice from the windscreen and the back window and to revving the engine , blowing grey fumes away down Lilac Gardens .
12	His car was in the turning circle .
13	All he wanted to do was to see if Connon 's car was in the garage .
14	When Zoe had n't returned by mid-day Lowell went to see if the car was in the garage .
15	I mean , we all knew that only the Lorrimores ’ car was behind the dome car .
16	Then Rain 's car was round the bend and the house vanished .
17	A child in the car was among the injured .

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