Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] car " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our beloved Leader — our glorious Leader — ’ ( this repetition for the benefit of another , who responded , ‘ Long live the Leader ! ’ ) — ‘ has brought to his attention that someone who can still see this nation of the blind has noticed a certain car hanging around the hero 's house , filled with big bad men . |
| 2 | Someone has spotted a prowling car . |
| 3 | I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams . |
| 4 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 5 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 6 | Jimmy Airlie , chief Ford union negotiator , said : ‘ The princess should never have picked a foreign car in the first place . |
| 7 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 8 | It is also possible to express condition through subject-verb inversion in rather more formal or literary style : Had I had enough money I would have bought a new car . |
| 9 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 10 | We 'll have to rent a Belgian car anyway . |
| 11 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |
| 12 | Not the first time , Parker , after a lost night , had reported a stolen car . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 15 | They 've got a big car , they 've got a big house |
| 16 | It 's a good job we 've got a big car is n't it ? |
| 17 | The 700 acre site , normally home to grazing sheep , had become a giant car park for a motley array of vehicles . |
| 18 | ‘ I have seen a green car , ’ he said . |
| 19 | See Len 's bought a new car . |
| 20 | Dad 's bought a new car . |
| 21 | I visited the local Oxfordshire set ups , that 's Williams , Benneton and Leyton House in the last couple of weeks , and all of them say ‘ Eddy 's got a good car , a good chassis , a good engine and he 's got good finance ’ , and they expect him to be right up there with the big names from the start . |
| 22 | If you put Tina 's number plate on another car and visa versa that would throw , I I 'd probably look at it and think you know , oh somebody 's got a new car or that looks familiar but it 's not the right car so I would n't think about it . |
| 23 | She 's got a new car . |
| 24 | Oh look , next door 's got a new car . |
| 25 | In fact yesterday we said I wonder if he 's got a new car or whether he 's got visitors . |
| 26 | Desperate to get work , he 's got a flash car and smoking as well |