Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [prep] [art] car " in BNC.

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1 With an increase of bland courtesy he insists that she stay in the car while he talks to the girl behind the Reception desk .
2 Luke told me that she died in a car accident some time ago .
3 ‘ That 's because she died in a car accident five years ago . ’
4 Before she gets into the car , she turns around and thanks me with a squeeze of her hand .
5 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 .
6 But when she got into the car at five , ready for the fifteen-mile drive across London , it would n't start .
7 A woman motorcyclist was killed when she collided with a car near Sprays Bridge , East Sussex .
8 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 .
9 Deborah Gould was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she smashed into a car which swerved into her path as she was out driving last month .
10 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 .
11 She did n't seem to have bought much ; she tossed me a box of matches as she got into the car .
12 Iris , you 've got an admirer , murmured Melissa to herself as she got into the car .
13 As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle .
14 Outside , the rain was coming down in drenching sheets , and she huddled into her jacket against the driving wind as she hurried to the car .
15 ‘ Thank you for bringing me home , ’ she said in a light voice , and David glanced briefly at her as she climbed from the car .
16 Merrill thought , as she sat in the car as far away as possible from him .
17 The driver looked on sentimentally as she alighted from the car and made her way down the path .
18 A glance at her watch as she turned to the car park told her she was not doing too badly after all .
19 Of course , Caroline thought as she settled inside the car .
20 She brushed past Penry , eluding the hand he put out to detain her as she ran outside to the car , deaf to his entreaties as she jumped in the car and started it up with a violent rev of the engine .
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