Example sentences of "[prep] the car when " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday .
2 Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard .
3 She went everywhere with us and could be fast asleep in the back of the car when we turned into our lane , whereupon she would sit up and start sniffing the air .
4 She had tried to get out of the car when he was driving and he considered it lucky that they had n't been killed , but as he and I were together more I came to admire her resolution and good sense .
5 She had been last noticed at the wheel of the car when the Josephs arrived there .
6 Roman helped Claudia out of the car when they reached her flat , took the key from her and opened the door .
7 Kingsway Motors ' damages were assessed as the difference between the value of the car when ownership should have passed to them ( i.e. when they bought it ) and its lower value when ownership actually passed to them ( i.e. when title was fed ) .
8 Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair .
9 Concern 's chief executive , Aengus Finucane , in Somalia on a visit , said : ‘ Wendy Murphy , a nurse who was with Valerie , said Valerie threw herself to the floor of the car when the shooting started .
10 This would not necessarily occur for the risk ratings since these may have been initially quite high because of the drivers ’ unfamiliarity with the car when giving the first ratings .
11 Mr Bowden said he pulled over onto the grass verge and was about level with the car when he heard two thuds as two other cars ran into it .
12 Remove all personal belongings from the car when you leave .
13 On one occasion , they locked her in the car when they went to a call and wound up the window to prevent her overhearing .
14 Earlier he had made the same gesture , in the car when she was afraid of the storm , the sky rolling over on itself , hanging over the wheatfields .
15 Cats do n't usually take to car travel , that 's why I do n't often take any of mine with me , and shutting them up in cages goes against the grain , but my sister 's two Burmese love the car , they 'll go and sit in the car when it parked .
16 Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer .
17 In their few days together Thomas had made no reference to that night in the car when he had asked her to touch him , there .
18 ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka .
19 They were in the car when Emma said quietly , ‘ You can love two people at the same time , ca n't you , Mammy ? ’
20 Only in the car when they were well on their way to London did she inform her stepfather of what Mr. Crowther had told her .
21 There were six people in the car when it was hit …
22 The guns , which can take blank ammunition and are used in country and western events , were in a case left in the car when the owner parked it outside the Boiler Makers ' club .
23 You can go in the car when Bryony 's got her shoe on .
24 Yes it is nice it 's okay if you can do it in daylight , but artificial light is difficult and I used to sit in the car when Charlotte was asleep .
25 She wo n't just stay in the car , she wo n't want to stay in the car when she wakes up cos that 's too boring .
26 really cos there 's such a cross section of conversation going on , it 's really funny there 's this bit in the car when we went outside with the mike and on a at Claire 's party and er erm like there 's me talking to Claire really loudly like across the car and Frank talking to Nigel across the front and he speakers were up here and there 's just a whaaaaaaa this massive rabble going on .
27 Police sources say the officers were able to hear what was going on inside the car when Sergeant Norton 's radio was accidentally switched on .
28 ‘ We 'll wander over to the car when we 've finished , ’ he told the driver .
29 By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic !
30 Replete in a small guilty elation , she was on her way back to the car when she met Robert .
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