Example sentences of "[verb] a car [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't bother with keeping a car or two between us like they do in the movies . |
| 2 | Now , what 's the good of nicking a car if you ca n't drive it and you 've got to ditch it ? |
| 3 | He never crashed a car while racing — a rare distinction . |
| 4 | You want a car that easily forgives if you apply a little too much throttle a little too early on a wet road ? |
| 5 | I want a car as well mum |
| 6 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 7 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |
| 8 | You had to look hard to find a car that did n't boast an £80,000-plus price sticker , plus a 200mph-plus top speed or , as was usually the case , both . |
| 9 | Now she 'll just have to find a car that people do n't want to steal . |
| 10 | Individuals may not have access to private transport to substitute for inadequate public provision ; they may not be able to obtain a lift when necessary and they may not possess a telephone or the resources to obtain a car or phone . |
| 11 | By September , I was driving a car and my sight was restored in both eyes . |
| 12 | Down the road , a third person may be driving a car and taking the dog for daily walks . |
| 13 | the the two brothers that went away and they were driving a car and one said to the other , watch what you 're doing and the other said to him , but I 'm not driving so . |
| 14 | Hughes and Cole had drivers report objects that ‘ attracted their attention ’ while actually driving a car and while watching a film of the same route . |
| 15 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 16 | This is a phenomenon which most of us experience from time to time , particularly when performing a highly practised task like driving a car or using a keyboard , and which the clinician often feels presents in exaggerated form in certain neurological conditions . |
| 17 | But there is another significant difference between the individual driving a car or a lorry and all these other forms of transport , and that is the chain of responsibility . |
| 18 | However , they do not accord with traditional conceptions of crime — perhaps because many of the offences may be committed in ‘ normal ’ , situations , such as driving a car or conducting a business — and this may tend to obscure their direct relation to the issue of physical safety . |
| 19 | The terminology may seem strange , as all terminology does , but it is worthwhile remembering that driving a car or operating a stereo system also involves the use of terminology , which we take for granted . |
| 20 | What is a humby An erection on public transport , an irritating noise whilst driving a car or humming up the vagina ? |
| 21 | Neither has a car and journeys into Prague have to be carefully planned . |
| 22 | He hired a car and drove to his hometown of Cupar in Fife , Scotland . |
| 23 | She bought a map , hired a car and drove nervously to Cambridge , where the opening week of Harvard 's autumn semester was in frantic progress . |
| 24 | We flew to San Diego on the West Coast where we hired a car and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas . |
| 25 | He completed his business deal , hired a car and drove past coffee and sugar-cane plantations , to Kericho near Lake Victoria where the air was chilly and the fields emerald-green with tea bushes . |
| 26 | He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club . |
| 27 | They spoke good Spanish : if they promised to interpret for me , I said , I 'd rent a car and give them a ride . |
| 28 | Then Sir Alfred pulled in in his Bentley and promised me a free hand to design a car that worked . |
| 29 | For example it may not be possible to design a car that is heavier and uses less fuel . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ replies Craftsman Browne , ‘ but I 'm going to make the most of it — Geordie and I are going to hire a car and drive into the States to visit Yellowstone Park , getting back in time to spend a night in the Cadillacs Club in Medicine Hat … . ’ |