Example sentences of "[was/were] in the car " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in the car , preparing to drive off , before she spoke . |
| 2 | Because we were in the car on Saturday , when you met Mr Plumpton ? ’ |
| 3 | And then they were in the car . |
| 4 | ‘ Did they say anything , while you were in the car ? ’ |
| 5 | There was a good deal of curiosity behind Mike 's admiration , but he managed to curtail it until they were in the car . |
| 6 | They were in the car when Emma said quietly , ‘ You can love two people at the same time , ca n't you , Mammy ? ’ |
| 7 | When she came to with a start she found they were in the car park below the ruins of the castle in Haverfordwest . |
| 8 | There was a flurry of farewells , repeated invitations to Leonora to come again soon , then at last they were in the car and heading out of London . |
| 9 | So , indeed , was Sophie , and as soon as they were in the car she asked , ‘ Is your story true ? |
| 10 | Three people who were in the car at the time were injured in the crash , one of them seriously . |
| 11 | ‘ We were in the car and then there was a big bang and something that sounded like an explosion , ’ said Gary , who had hoped to visit friends near Lyonette Road . |
| 12 | And they were in the car going up . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm very very sorry , Mrs. Fanshawe , ’ he said , ‘ but your daughter was in the car . |
| 14 | They had still not turned up by two o'clock , and since their sandwich lunch was in the car , Jack and Warnie were feeling ‘ uncommonly peckish ’ . |
| 15 | The last place he wanted to be was in the car . |
| 16 | I was in the car too . ’ |
| 17 | I was in the car , after all . |
| 18 | I like it 'cos you know when Daphne had a car crash , just because Jamie was in the car , my brother said that Jamie crashed the car and when the coffee shop blew up … my brother said 'cos Bronwyn was holding the baby when she saw it , he said that Jamie blew the coffee shop up [ laughs ] . |
| 19 | Edouard was in the car , on the far side of the square , when he heard the explosion . |
| 20 | I was really angry about what had happened to her and I used to take my anger out when I was in the car , driving really dangerously . |
| 21 | ‘ That interloper who was in the car , calls himself the Doctor apparently — he 's on his way to the cemetery . |
| 22 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 23 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 24 | The soldier denies the murder of 18-year-old Karen Reilly who was in the car with her friend Martin Peake , who was also shot dead . |
| 25 | Almost one-third of the fall in manufacturing employment was in the car industry , and in October the Ford Motor Company and General Motors ( GM ) both reported a fall in third-quarter profits of 45 per cent and 40 per cent respectively compared with third quarter 1988 . |
| 26 | He did n't see who was in the car and it went up a side road . |
| 27 | If the yeah there 's a fella , there 's a fella alive today I wa I was in the car outside the pub called the Carpenter 's Arms with him cos er ai n't you trouble with your , oh oh Chuck his name was , Chuck , I said do n't you worry what you what yo ah ! |
| 28 | At five o'clock that Thursday evening she left her office , noticed sourly that her ‘ boyfriend 's ’ Jaguar was in the car park , and drove off to view a flat that was within her means . |
| 29 | ‘ Talking of romance — I passed Robert Sheldrake on my way to the pig farm , and guess who was in the car with him ? |
| 30 | A man who was in the car park at the time said he was forced to dive for cover . |