Example sentences of "the car [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eased the car over to the side of the road and switched off . |
| 2 | Scott pulled the car over to the kerb , his right hand slipping inside his jacket . |
| 3 | Rory Collins pulled the car over to the left , putting two wheels up on the pale grass verge . |
| 4 | He pulled the car over to the kerb and let the engine idle while he turned to face her . |
| 5 | Then take the car over . |
| 6 | Rather than , sort of , go from Manchester by plane what , they decided they 'd drive down and take the car over so we were supposed to be going for a meal and they said , where shall we go for a meal ? |
| 7 | Their mother used to click her lips surreptitiously as Jill filled the car up . |
| 8 | They turned left on to Sunset and her mother put the roof of the car up again without any argument . |
| 9 | Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh my God ! ’ she screeched , and spun the wheel , running the car up onto the pavement , twisting the wheel to try and avoid a shopkeeper , and plunging head-on into the wide , plate-glass window of an antique shop . |
| 11 | Still smiling with pleasure , he swung the car up round a steep bend . |
| 12 | So I pulled to the side and I had n't changed a tyre for a long time , but I got the jack out of the back and started to jack the car up , and while I was doing it , these two ladies went , ‘ Ah , it 's Sting ’ . |
| 13 | I hope you 've locked the car up , three times last week I found it open , it really is terribly dangerous … |
| 14 | I find a track leading off the road into a stand of trees ; I take the car up as far as it will go , then turn the lights out . |
| 15 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 16 | So now Maxim had to bring the car up . |
| 17 | The only other sighting we 've had was a farm worker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine . |
| 18 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 19 | I 'll walk home and pick the car up in the morning . ’ |
| 20 | But , as he drew the car up outside her hotel and turned to look at her , Fabia knew that she could n't afford to be infuriated . |
| 21 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 22 | Next morning off they go to the shops she goes turns all her lights off and ignition it 's in the car she starts the car up and off she trundles coming in along . |
| 23 | Mark is n't coming over to pick the car up . |
| 24 | It 's warmed the car up . |
| 25 | If I went I 'd go park the car up wear a Chelsea shirt . |
| 26 | be up there on Saturday , I shall load the car up and take them |
| 27 | Will I be able to move the car up outside the house a bit later on ? |
| 28 | When the car bumped out on to the tarmac he swung the wheel hard across and turned the car around to face towards his chosen village . |
| 29 | She started the engine and swung the car around , catching a last glimpse of the place in her rear-view mirror . |
| 30 | In complete panic , I turned the car around and drove back to where the house had been . |