Example sentences of "car [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Davies put his friend in his car and took him back to his flat in Highfield Road and called for an ambulance .
2 Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand .
3 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 .
4 In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital .
5 I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings .
6 Or some of them they cut the whole floor out and weld a new take the floor old car and weld it back in again .
7 I 'll get my car and run you back to your hotel .
8 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 .
9 In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months .
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