Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [art] car " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both these films are somewhat stagey , but contemporary comment could be combined with visual fantasy , as is revealed by Cecil Hepworth 's The Perils of Modern Motoring ( 1905 ) , in which a policeman is left in a dismembered state after being mowed down by a car . |
| 2 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 3 | I was knocked down by a car and very nearly died . |
| 4 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 5 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 6 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 7 | Two thousand mourners have attended the funeral of two young sisters from Middlesbrough who were knocked down by a car which went out of control . |
| 8 | Two traffic wardens have been knocked down by a car after questioning the driver about a photocopied tax disc . |
| 9 | John Fillon-Payoux was knocked down by a car . |
| 10 | He was knocked down by a car when he was 4 . |
| 11 | The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement . |
| 12 | Norman Askew , 59 , of Victoria Avenue , Redcar , knocked down by a car near St.Bede 's School , Marske on Monday has since died in hospital from the head injuries he received in the accident . |
| 13 | Kevin Tearney , 36 , of Ellenmere Court , Billingham , Cleveland is critically ill in Middlesbrough General Hospital , after being knocked down by a car in Marsh House Avenue , Billingham . |
| 14 | A six-year-old girl was in hospital last night after being knocked down by a car in Raby Road , Hartlepool . |
| 15 | Schoolboy Andrew Bostick , of Leaholm Grove , Stockton , received cuts to his face and left leg when he was knocked down by a car in Fairfield Road , Stockton . |
| 16 | A 78-year-old Darlington man was rushed to hospital yesterday after he was knocked down by a car while crossing High Row . |
| 17 | A PEDESTRIAN who died after being knocked down by a car in Aberdeen 's Market Street early yesterday morning was named as John Duncan , 45 , a fisherman , of Glenburn Road , Burra , Shetland . |
| 18 | ‘ I just hope we can catch up with him before he gets knocked down by a car or finds his way off the roads into open countryside or woodland where it will be harder to find him . ’ |
| 19 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 20 | She insisted on knowing who her intruder was , and so she would wait down by the car to see who emerged from the building . |
| 21 | Nineteen-year-old Tracy West , of Derwent Street , Darlington , who was knocked down by the car and suffered cuts and bruises . |
| 22 | For example , a collision between a pedestrian and a car is very likely to be described by a speaker as a boy being run over by a car , rather than as a car knocking a boy down . |
| 23 | I wonder if I were to kill her , if she were dead , if she were knocked over by a car , would that make the jealousy , that mixture of anxiety , grief and fear of exclusion , simply stop ? |
| 24 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 25 | A pensioner died in hospital after being run over by a car on the poorly lit Corporation Road , Redcar , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 26 | An eight-year-old boy spent the weekend recovering after being knocked over by a car on Hollyhurst Road , Darlington . |
| 27 | You have to wash the car remember , we can get off by the car . |
| 28 | Tough boss John McMichael was blown up by a car bomb outside his home in 1987 . |
| 29 | Little real progress was achieved , however , and the FMLN broke off peace negotiations on Nov. 2 after a trade union headquarters was blown up by a car bomb [ see pp. 37037-38 ] . |
| 30 | Now what happens when you go to the station on a Sunday to park your car and find all the spaces are taken up by a car boot , er the whole think is a nonsense and er frankly somebody should tell British Rail so er I wonder if this is Chairman a shot across the bows of er rail privat privatisation and if it is I welcome it . |