Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] car [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when I got the car back on to the road , I mean I 'm a , a complete bag of nerves and I 'm , I 'm not wanting to be walking along the , the edge of the bypass at one o'clock in the morning |
| 2 | But , as he drew the car up outside her hotel and turned to look at her , Fabia knew that she could n't afford to be infuriated . |
| 3 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 4 | He stopped for an early beer at a roadside pub in Surrey , then dropped the car off in its lock-up garage and strolled to a cafe for lunch . |
| 5 | It was one of the girls then that drove the car out of Florence ? ’ |
| 6 | He said shit , glad I never drove the car down there . |
| 7 | He then drove the car back . |
| 8 | Their mother used to click her lips surreptitiously as Jill filled the car up . |
| 9 | It was only when Dexter parked the car back at the Yard that they noticed in the paintwork of the boot two long , deep scratches . |
| 10 | Police said the couple were walking to their hotel from a restaurant when a man drove a car up beside them , pointed a gun and ordered them to lie down . |
| 11 | I turned the car round and headed home . |
| 12 | Once the engine caught , he turned the car round and drove back into Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , elevation 21 metres . |
| 13 | At one stage he turned the car round and rammed a following police car , nudging it aside . |
| 14 | When the car bumped out on to the tarmac he swung the wheel hard across and turned the car around to face towards his chosen village . |
| 15 | In complete panic , I turned the car around and drove back to where the house had been . |
| 16 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 17 | Fergus powered the car down out of the forest , through some more houses and a few lights . |
| 18 | He saw Celia sitting under a large cedar tree in the garden when he drove up the long drive and swung the car round into the forecourt . |
| 19 | They were amber as she swung the car round to the right and through them , heading down a side street , taking another right then another until they were back on the street where they 'd started . |
| 20 | Still smiling with pleasure , he swung the car up round a steep bend . |
| 21 | She started the engine and swung the car around , catching a last glimpse of the place in her rear-view mirror . |
| 22 | And it was as Doyle swung the car out into the traffic again that he glimpsed the girl from the oriental-art shop . |
| 23 | He swung the car out into Nîmes and beyond Nîmes into the countryside , straight roads with plane trees , cultivated wild land right and left . |
| 24 | Pressing the gas pedal to the floor , he swung the car out and began to overtake . |
| 25 | He swung the car out of the yard while Fran stared at him in confusion . |
| 26 | ‘ Where are we going now ? ’ she asked as he swung the car back into the main street . |
| 27 | She reversed the car out and swung it round to give Billy room to put his in its place . |
| 28 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 29 | Scott pulled the car over to the kerb , his right hand slipping inside his jacket . |
| 30 | Rory Collins pulled the car over to the left , putting two wheels up on the pale grass verge . |