Example sentences of "a new car " in BNC.

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1 The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car .
2 To buy a Stag just for its investment potential is to deny yourself the sort of al fresco luxury that most people can only dream about in a new car .
3 ‘ It seems to depend on how much credit people can afford , and at the moment it is just not enough for a new car , ’ said one high-street main dealer .
4 This was something of bonus for the Williams since it had learned next to nothing during practice thanks to niggling problems associated with a new car .
5 Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’
6 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 . ’
7 And never does this feel better than when he chooses a new car in the showroom .
8 With a new car from Benetton due to be shaken down by Martin Brundle at Silverstone today , he may have a chance of holding his position longer than many expect .
9 When I 'm running , I feel like I am a machine , like a new car that has been run in well .
10 Few people would be sold a new car without a handbook , or even attempt to grow cabbages without reading up about it first , but the same people will on impulse buy a new puppy without the foggiest idea of what is involved
11 You may also qualify for a Mobility Allowance to help pay transport costs such as the Road Tax , or other grants such as an interest-free loan towards the purchase of a new car .
12 ‘ I went to look for a new car and the Lord said to me , ‘ Richie , you buy this car .
13 He is dressed in expensive clothing and drives a new car : Judy Gomez refers to him as a pimp , thus indicating his involvement in sexual as well as social exploitation .
14 When you buy a valuable piece of equipment , like a new car or furniture for your home , one of the first things you do , is to insure it in case of accidental damage .
15 NatWest has a flexible approach so that loans are also available for other purchases that you may have in mind , whether for furnishings , Hi-Fi , other domestic equipment , a new car , or a holiday to get away from it all .
16 And start the 21st Century with a substantial cash sum , which is yours to spend any way you wish — on improvements to your home , a new car , a special holiday .
17 Whatever your reason for borrowing — a new car , home improvements or a holiday — we have the loan that suits your needs .
18 Cellulose is not proof against attack and it was reckoned that a new car 's shine would be ruined in about two years .
19 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 .
20 One : choose a new car and sell the old one yourself or through the dealer 's Resale Club .
21 It seems to me to be accepted policy to stop a black man driving a new car .
22 Kriss Akabussi , World and Olympic finalist , when he was stationed in the Army in Germany brought a new car into Britain and was stopped a number of times on his way to Hampshire .
23 For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter .
24 While catalytic converters may cost the manufacturer around £50 to buy , to fit them requires skilled labour and may well bump up the price of a new car by between £100 and £1000 depending on the model .
25 We will have sufficient to purchase a new car by our fifth anniversary .
26 If you feel that , over the years , you might wish to avail yourself of some loans for home improvement , a new car , or some major item of expenditure , then you really do need to keep favour with a bank .
27 ‘ And we 'd just bought a new car . ’
28 In the end Otis received nearly £5,000 towards a new car
29 They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved .
30 Again , the control layout would bother me because the volume pot for the bridge pickup is the middle of the three , but I think I could get used to it — although at present it is like trying to get used to driving a new car where they 've put the gearstick in the middle of the passenger seat .
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