Example sentences of "[verb] off in the car " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 2 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 3 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 4 | Quite coherent and certain he saw his dad make a phone call from the instrument in the hall and then drive off in the car . |
| 5 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 6 | The nearest town was some distance away and Alain had driven off in the car . |
| 7 | But as police stood outside the pair sped off in the car . |
| 8 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 9 | The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 10 | No I went off in the car with They climbed over the fence . |
| 11 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 12 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 13 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |