Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] a new car " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She 's got a new car . |
| 4 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 5 | In fact yesterday we said I wonder if he 's got a new car or whether he 's got visitors . |