Example sentences of "a [noun pl] car " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
| 2 | Its engine was American , its assembly was completed in America , it would n't have happened without Shelby 's American dream , but underneath it all the Shelby AC Cobra was a British a sports car as you could wish to see . |
| 3 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 4 | In June 1964 , The Autocar 's testers remarked , ‘ In its appointments the Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII is now more or a touring car than a sports car . |
| 5 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |
| 6 | That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ . |
| 7 | Only Mercedes-Benz could charge £50,800 for a car that is comprehensively outperformed by a Vauxhall Calibra 2.0i 16v , costing £33,550 less , and still call it a sports car . |
| 8 | There was a saloon going to Chicago but there was a sports car to Los Angeles . |
| 9 | ( Old hands recall how Punch , on a day off from the Paris bureau in 1955 , saw a sports car plough into the crowd at Le Mans and kill 87 people ; no other reporter from the newspaper was there , yet it never occurred to Punch to call his office . ) |
| 10 | In August I stole a sports car and went to the South of France . |
| 11 | The assailant , a man , fled in a sports car . |
| 12 | One night , at the age of twenty-six , she was the victim of an appalling accident , when she was passenger in a sports car which ran out of control and somersaulted , landing upside down . |
| 13 | It was magnificently low-slung , almost like a sports car , but with four plush leather seats and a thrusting bonnet . |
| 14 | There are pictures that catch Shaw in a sports car , in his celebrated shed , in a folk dance with a Fabian , and in the nude . |
| 15 | A man who sported a sports car and sideboards , a season ticket and a sculpture teacher , a man who produced his own series and had a bachelor pad , a Peter Sarstedt LP and a past ? |
| 16 | ‘ To me the Lotus Seven was everything a sports car should be . ’ |
| 17 | The ‘ typical ’ Caterham driver is difficult to categorise beyond the fact that he will be a sports car enthusiast ‘ who takes pride in his driving ’ ( there is an unspoken assumption that he is male ) . |
| 18 | Even though Stevens still needed Dean for a couple more shots , the young punk put his foot down and tore along Highway 66 at 85 miles an hour , heading for a sports car race at Salinas . |
| 19 | They show their immaturity as soon as they get behind the wheel of a sports car . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had offers to race a horse , a sports car , a motor bike , even a greyhound . |
| 21 | A car that combines the comfort of a luxury car with the handling of a sports car ? |
| 22 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 23 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 24 | That 's all right they told her , everyone loves a sports car . |
| 25 | Flying was even better than she had hoped : better than skiing , better than driving a sports car . |
| 26 | And the E I and the J and the P are if you like sort of part of the bodywork which decides whether you 're a sports car or a heavy goods |
| 27 | Needless to say , she had never been in a sports car before , and to be speeding and curving through the streets with the top open and the balmy August breeze combing silkily through her fine hair was sheer heaven . |
| 28 | I can , however , distinguish a sports car from a saloon . |
| 29 | Not like the man-made beauty of a sports car , its sleek lines and purring engine . |
| 30 | Here she is , my dream woman , and she 's madly in love with some young blond boy whose only ambition is to drive around in a sports car and drink champagne ! ’ |