Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a new car " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Don , who plans to buy a new car , added : ‘ I heard the news on my late wife 's birthday . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've got a new car and it 's already got 23,000 on the clock , and three-quarters of that must be to the club . ’ |
| 9 | See Len 's bought a new car . |
| 10 | Dad 's bought a new car . |
| 11 | If you put Tina 's number plate on another car and visa versa that would throw , I I 'd probably look at it and think you know , oh somebody 's got a new car or that looks familiar but it 's not the right car so I would n't think about it . |
| 12 | She 's got a new car . |
| 13 | Oh look , next door 's got a new car . |
| 14 | In fact yesterday we said I wonder if he 's got a new car or whether he 's got visitors . |