Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] car " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our beloved Leader — our glorious Leader — ’ ( this repetition for the benefit of another , who responded , ‘ Long live the Leader ! ’ ) — ‘ has brought to his attention that someone who can still see this nation of the blind has noticed a certain car hanging around the hero 's house , filled with big bad men . |
| 2 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 3 | The traffic was heavier now but the Germans were disciplined to respect a fast-moving car . |
| 4 | Someone has spotted a prowling car . |
| 5 | This is a golden opportunity to get away from it — we want to produce a proper car , sold through a proper dealer network . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We had planned to run a single GM-backed Astra this year for Luis Climent but when Bardolet became available it was decided to provide a second car for him supported by an outside sponsor , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 7 | JOYRIDING youths were seen pushing a stolen car to the top of a pedestrian stairway seconds before a mother on the steps was killed , a court heard yesterday . |
| 8 | I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams . |
| 9 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 10 | Don , who plans to buy a new car , added : ‘ I heard the news on my late wife 's birthday . |
| 11 | So when , in 1959 , it was decided to build a mid-engined car , I was violently affronted that Berthon and his staff at Bourne would design it , and not me at Folkingham . |
| 12 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 13 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 14 | The Police are waiting to interview a teenage car driver following the death of two sisters who were crushed against a wall in Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | But who 's going to drive a flaming car in reverse for thousands and thousands of miles ? |
| 16 | Overall , the Calibra has to be the safer choice , but the more seductive charms of the Corrado G60 will woo the hearts of those who appreciate driving a great-handling car . |
| 17 | A former world champion who had narrowly missed a second championship , he had a position of huge popularity in an important market for Marlboro ( Brazil ) , exactly the kinds of characteristics needed to develop a new car , and fitted in temperamentally very well with the racing ‘ philosophy ’ of the McLaren boss Edward Everett Mayer — known on the circuit as ‘ the Wiener ’ due to his squeaky voice , short stature and constant presence . |
| 18 | saying of all , all the things that they get up to you know , cutting using a stolen car |
| 19 | He takes an active role in key planning and new model decisions — most recently to start manufacturing a new car in the US — while , say employees , being happy to let others take the credit . |
| 20 | Jimmy Airlie , chief Ford union negotiator , said : ‘ The princess should never have picked a foreign car in the first place . |
| 21 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 22 | It is also possible to express condition through subject-verb inversion in rather more formal or literary style : Had I had enough money I would have bought a new car . |
| 23 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 24 | he more or less sort of said well I 'll have to have a cheaper car . |
| 25 | We 'll have to rent a Belgian car anyway . |
| 26 | A pregnant woman and her three-year-old son have been injured in a head-on crash involving a stolen car . |
| 27 | From the moment you sit back in the Orion 's roomy interior , you 'll know how it feels to drive a classic car . |
| 28 | If you go to buy a secondhand car these days they invariably try to sell you a guarantee or a warranty on it . |
| 29 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |
| 30 | Not the first time , Parker , after a lost night , had reported a stolen car . |