Example sentences of "a car [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 2 | If you have a radio , a cassette player , a car phone or fax , then those stationary hours in the car are not totally wasted . |
| 3 | In contrast , a truly mobile phone , like a car phone , can be used in most places because it is on one of the UK 's cellular networks Cellnet or Vodafone . |
| 4 | She used a car phone … but not to send for an ambulance or police . |
| 5 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 6 | If you can have a car phone , in theory you can have a Fax machine to go with it . |
| 7 | The costs to the motorist are believed to be broadly similar to those for a car phone , with a sliding scale of charges based on the level and frequency of use . |
| 8 | Friends and a typewriter are superimposed on to the film of a car journey to Avebury , and background noise is provided , I think , by something called Throbbing Gristle . |
| 9 | Imagine a car journey from Edinburgh to London . |
| 10 | In my letter I mentioned the particular case of the Times Motoring correspondent who found that the return Brighton — Birmingham rail fare would cost him four times as much as the price of petrol for a car journey , despite driving a not especially economical car . |
| 11 | This patient has never been in hospital , but became colonised after sharing a car journey with a P , cepacia-colonised CF adult . |
| 12 | But first that special treat — a car journey . |
| 13 | Although David Thorpe was in essence a still-life photographer , I remember going on location in Germany to do a car campaign , and we also used to do many portraits — there was a tremendous variety in what we were doing . ’ |
| 14 | Several misgivings later , I was relieved to see a car stop , and so made the acquaintance of Peter Mulhooley . |
| 15 | Going up the lane , she saw a car stop and Frank Conway quickly get out and turn as though awaiting her . |
| 16 | In a given situation , more than one of these may be used — for example , fax signals being passed along a telephone line or telephone messages being sent using radio techniques as in a car telephone , cordless telephone or ship-to-shore link . |
| 17 | A car matching police descriptions had been found in Jedforest rugby club car park . |
| 18 | ‘ If you do n't laugh , you 'll cry ’ is Robin Williams ' motto in this humorous and very human film about Joey , a car salesman who ca n't resist making a sale , even at a funeral . |
| 19 | Before Lawless made his approach , Ian was a warehouse manager in Durham , while Stephen was a car salesman . |
| 20 | A car salesman is recovering after being held up at gunpoint by a man posing as a customer . |
| 21 | A CAR salesman sold a vehicle under a false description , a court heard yesterday . |
| 22 | John is a car salesman . |
| 23 | So write it down , get a picture of it , it 's like a car salesman , what does he do when you go into a car showroom ? |
| 24 | That little red hoover , is that a car hoover ? |
| 25 | What price a car brochure ? |
| 26 | Quite what earth , wind and fire had to do with building a car factory on a former aerodrome in the Wiltshire countryside was never satisfactorily explained . |
| 27 | From there , at 16 , he moved via Lebanon to Detroit , where he worked in a beauty shop and a car factory before helping the notorious Purple Gang smuggle alcohol from Canada in a hearse . |
| 28 | But a car factory is not an independent unit : it is part of a much wider network of manufacturers , deliverers , suppliers and designers . |
| 29 | David , a 45-year-old married man employed on the production line of a car factory , was admitted to a general hospital after an overdose of 30 sleeping pills . |
| 30 | I was working in a car factory at the time . |