Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] car " in BNC.

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1 They show their immaturity as soon as they get behind the wheel of a sports car .
2 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 .
3 Lewis had fallen fast asleep on the back seat of the police car and remained so for the whole of the journey back to Oxford .
4 As long as you ignore Detective Sergeant Kellard , sitting quietly in the back seat of the police car .
5 to smile in the dark of the police car
6 Another key piece of evidence was Magee 's palm print on the roof of the police car , matching Pc Kelly 's description of how he steadied himself before firing .
7 The last real Targa Florio was staged in 1973 , thereafter it became a much " tamer " affair and ceased to be part of the Sports Car World Championship .
8 The driver of the police car purchased two packets of Kent and threw one pack to his friend who caught it without a pause in his speech to Signe , then saluted , and both policemen got into the Porsche .
9 In the case of the police car , my belief fails to track the truth in both ways , and so is not knowledge .
10 The approach used by Watts and Quimby does not have these problems , however , it encourages the subject to focus on the external environment in order to answer the question , moreover it makes the assumption that subjective risk is determined only by the chances of a near miss , it may clearly relate to other factors as well ( e.g. severity of consequences in an actual accident , presence of a police car , unpredictability of pedestrians ) .
11 The engine of the police car was still running .
12 At dawn she was woken briefly by the sound of the sports car going down the drive .
13 Mark Stevenson , of Lambeth Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , visited Cleveland Police 's traffic unit at Cannon Park , Middlesbrough , to hand over his picture of the police car of the future .
14 ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world .
15 Once the cynics had been silenced and the first customer Griffiths burbled their way out of TVR 's Blackpool factory , the rest of the sports car world stopped and stared .
16 The Indian kids would n't matter , but the Yuppie type might get half an hour in the back of a police car checking the pavements and the pub car parks for some sign of his attacker .
17 Rita sat in the back of the police car as she was told to do .
18 Tug watched the back of the police car bump its way up the track .
19 The two were handcuffed together , taken off the bus and put in the back of the police car which then escorted us into town with lights flashing and siren blaring .
20 Amaranth sat in the back of the police car with Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora , my dear ’ ) .
21 He had levered himself up so that he was leaning on the boot of the sports car Scamp had tried to demolish with his shotgun .
22 from somewhere across the city came the lonely scream of a police car .
23 Cleverly he arranged it at night when there were no cars parked in Clifton Street , otherwise the swing of the 50-feet car would surely have reached them !
24 As the other four offered their own inimitable advice , the police hustled the Celtic defender downstairs and out into the streets where he was thrown over the bonnet of a police car .
25 Although in both cases it can be argued that the sight of the police car is what caused the speaker to be glad , the way in which these notions are put into relation is not the same .
26 Not like the man-made beauty of a sports car , its sleek lines and purring engine .
27 Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison .
28 A car that combines the comfort of a luxury car with the handling of a sports car ?
29 Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon .
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