Example sentences of "car [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 2 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 3 | As he reached for Steen 's hand , he heard a car drawing up outside the gates . |
| 4 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 5 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 6 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 7 | Then he sent the car leaping out of the garage . |
| 8 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 9 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 10 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 11 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 12 | He was about to swivel round into the hall when he heard the sound of a car starting up outside the house . |
| 13 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 14 | US design was offering the evergreen Chevrolet Corvette but the most interesting car coming out of the US — via Britain — was the Ford GT40 , originally a Lola design . |