Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [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 The brief dialogue I later found preserved along with the car rental papers :
3 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 .
4 He was I think he 'd passed out in the car .
5 I know , but that one seems worse than anywhere , is n't it , every week you know stolen out of the car park car broken into , I mean who 's , I ca n't imagine with all them cars in there that nobody ever seems to see anything .
6 ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday .
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 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 .
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