Example sentences of "car [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 2 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 3 | The car had been washed but not valeted and its general condition suggested that the 58,160 mileage was genuine — something that the decidedly patchy service history was unable to confirm ( the vehicle arrived at Ritchie Motors without a service book ) . |
| 4 | I was so purified and uplifted that when I came out and discovered my car had been towed away and I 'd have to fork out 70 quid , I was completely unruffled . |
| 5 | The second key piece of information was that Angela Morgan 's car had been found in North Kensington , not far from her flat , and was now cordoned off and being crawled over inch by inch by a forensic team hastily dispatched by Davidson . |
| 6 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 7 | Unless of course the car had been moved again after Harry had made his unscheduled reappearance . |
| 8 | They had claimed containers of worms found in their car had been dug in an unprotected area elsewhere and that they had stopped at the bay to gather mussels . |
| 9 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 10 | But after we 'd pulled over and Jeffrey Bernard had been unwell on the pavement , after the police car had been persuaded to leave us alone , and after we 'd finally got that hefty brute of a Bill Ellis Trophy fully upright again — in its carrying case and everything — I was at least able to start thinking partially straight again . |
| 11 | The car had been used by Nessan Quinlivan and Pearse McAuley . |
| 12 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 13 | I would drive a few yards through the gate marked ‘ private ’ and instantly be set upon by men wielding knobbly aluminium clubs , or I would return from the walk to find my car had been smelted into a set of folding tubular garden furniture . |
| 14 | Zak 's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink . |
| 15 | I sat on the facilities , and told him that the water samples from the horse car had been pure and simple H&sub2 ; O. |
| 16 | Sam Somerville 's rental car had been where she left it in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow . |
| 17 | His car had been damaged at least six times and he 'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies . |
| 18 | In addition , in their case the car had been stolen . |
| 19 | The car had been moved in order to let the traffic get through . |
| 20 | I left Mark in crucifix position , spreadeagled across the boot and the back seat , attempting to push down the doorlocks from inside ( the car had been broken into while we were climbing , and the locks broken ) . |
| 21 | Proof of the number of seats in a passenger motor car or the maximum gross weight of a goods vehicle may be necessary to show this new offence applies to the vehicle in question , eg. ‘ The motor car had been adapted to carry 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver ’ ( but not more than 8 ) . |
| 22 | The hours can be calculated by totalling all the man hours expended as a result of the false report , e.g. a false report is made by a driver , involved in a hit and run accident , that his car had been stolen and at the time of the accident it must have been driven by the thief and not himself . |
| 23 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 24 | On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card . |
| 25 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 26 | When Duncan and Myeloski had come through the small terminal , they soon found that no car had been sent to greet them . |
| 27 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 28 | The car had been broken into and our ‘ civvies ’ stolen from the boot . |
| 29 | If Maria Jakob 's car had been parked in the front she would not have stopped . |
| 30 | We all stood up and walked around the wall to where the car had been . |