Example sentences of "[art] family car " in BNC.

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1 He has a well-paid job but he expects her to pay for the family car
2 The ECC , first displayed at the Paris show in early October , is the first truly convincing in-the-metal demonstration of how this ‘ hybrid ’ engine technology might shape the family car of the future .
3 These could be the positive side of your parents ' shortcomings , eg a young man may have noticed that his father never took his mother into consideration when purchasing the family car .
4 Fearful of the obvious dangers of traffic and molestation , parents have reacted by forbidding street play to younger offspring and by chauffeuring them around in the family car , itself more widely available .
5 He left the family car in the garage and cycled 12 miles to a supermarket to save 50p on groceries .
6 If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year .
7 Only the family car was taken from the £1 million landscaped home .
8 Even the family car had come from some Church-loan scheme .
9 A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up .
10 In addition to such items as a fridge and a vacuum cleaner , she has a dishwasher , central heating , hired domestic help and the use of the family car in the day time .
11 Below right : the family car 's number plate includes Mrs Guest 's stylish nickname
12 Part of the ‘ deal ’ struck in the course of his recent marital separation was for Polly to keep the family car .
13 For instance , husbands are more likely than wives to have control over the use of the family car , if a car is shared by the household .
14 The pater pays for holidays and he 's about to buy her a car , though she can borrow the family car and chauffeur whenever he does n't want them .
15 a ‘ statistically average ’ person aged 16 or over can expect : a robbery once every five centuries ( not attempts ) , an assault resulting in injury ( even if slight ) once every century , the family car to be taken by joyriders once every 60 years , a burglary in the home once every 40 years .
16 The family car , an old Rugby , was kept going with similar improvisation .
17 It was clean , even the wheels were clean , as if it were put out on a drive on Sundays and given the old once-over like the family car .
18 Eddie did the shopping , tended the garden , mended the taps and the fuses , and serviced the family car .
19 They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage .
20 and on that basis you believe that that would be , or do you believe that that would be adequate so that she could maintain and carry on and drive the family car and living in the house children
21 What 's the word X nineteen on the Lancia it 's like the family car get the tartan shopping trolley in the back of it
22 And they won a big prize — nowadays it would be the price of a family car .
23 ‘ The Volvo ECC hybrid marries new technology and good environmental practice in a family car prototype of immense practical appeal ’
24 He drives a BMW Estate — ‘ a family car ’ — and does n't have any expensive hobbies .
25 He had found that the Ford Granada Estate which he had bought second-hand in September for £4,000 was being used exclusively for collecting and delivering goods for Transom Trading and not as a family car as originally intended .
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