Example sentences of "[v-ing] a car " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an illustration of how it can occur , the field-worker was told of an incident in which a driver was asked to stop for failing to wear a seat-belt , upon which he sped off , necessitating a car chase , which eventually ended with two cars being wrecked and a policeman injured . |
| 2 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 3 | it 's , it 's fair do all together anyway I ca n't see me ever painting a car again |
| 4 | Purchasing a car . |
| 5 | Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune — and it never ends . |
| 6 | I did n't bother with keeping a car or two between us like they do in the movies . |
| 7 | Now , what 's the good of nicking a car if you ca n't drive it and you 've got to ditch it ? |
| 8 | His manner is the epitome of Ivy League rectitude : one of Boyd 's friends told me that the producer once ticked him off for breaching etiquette on opening a car door for a lady . |
| 9 | Her very ordinariness was celebrated ; everyday gestures such as opening a car door herself or buying a bag of sweets were acclaimed as evidence of a very human princess . |
| 10 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 11 | This is a phenomenon which most of us experience from time to time , particularly when performing a highly practised task like driving a car or using a keyboard , and which the clinician often feels presents in exaggerated form in certain neurological conditions . |
| 12 | By September , I was driving a car and my sight was restored in both eyes . |
| 13 | It might include a complex co-ordination between arms and legs as in driving a car . |
| 14 | But there is another significant difference between the individual driving a car or a lorry and all these other forms of transport , and that is the chain of responsibility . |
| 15 | However , they do not accord with traditional conceptions of crime — perhaps because many of the offences may be committed in ‘ normal ’ , situations , such as driving a car or conducting a business — and this may tend to obscure their direct relation to the issue of physical safety . |
| 16 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 17 | Down the road , a third person may be driving a car and taking the dog for daily walks . |
| 18 | Almost everything we do in our daily lives whether it be driving a car , making tea , or solving complex professional problems on the ward , is directly or indirectly the result of learning . |
| 19 | Nuclear energy as a hazard came up ineluctably , in a discussion of the familiarity of a risk , such as that in driving a car , making it generally acceptable . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the rest of us have yet to realise that computer literacy will soon be as essential as driving a car . |
| 21 | Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on . |
| 22 | On no account worry about the following technicalities , but , as with driving a car , it is helpful to know what is under the bonnet . |
| 23 | The three-man gang , wearing uniforms and driving a car with a blue flashing light , stopped the lorry heading for Dover on the A2 near Cobham , Kent . |
| 24 | When the 1976 championship year began for Hunt , he was driving a car with which he had no more than a nodding acquaintance . |
| 25 | Consequently , for almost a decade after that , Trevor was never actually seen driving a car in any film . |
| 26 | We 've been driving a car like this for years . |
| 27 | Then it 's just like driving a car . |
| 28 | To illustrate this , it is relevant to remember that driving a car is possible for the fully sighted in foggy conditions , but it is a more tiring procedure than driving when visibility is good . |
| 29 | This can happen while driving a car over a familiar route , and it can happen while reading predictable passages of text . |
| 30 | If you needed a blood transfusion er you 're not likely to be driving a car straight afterwards . |