noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car accident ( also an automobile accident American English formal )
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He was badly injured in a car accident.
a car alarm (= for when someone tries to steal a car )
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I was woken by a car alarm in the middle of the night.
a car bomb (= that makes a car explode )
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The car bomb killed 21 shoppers.
a car door
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She heard a car door slamming.
a car/bus/train etc ride
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The resort is a short bus ride away from the hotel.
a car/holiday/shampoo etc advertisement
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a glossy magazine full of car advertisements
a car/jewel etc thief
a car/lorry/bicycle etc tyre
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They sell and fit car tyres.
a car/motorbike etc engine
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I heard the sound of a car engine in the distance.
a car/plane/bus etc journey
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the six-hour train journey to London
a car/textile/shoe etc factory
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There is a large car factory where many of the local people work.
a car/torch/phone etc battery
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Have you checked your mobile phone battery?
a car/train/plane etc crash
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He was badly hurt in a car crash.
a company car (= that your company gives you to use )
a family car (= one designed for families with children )
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It's a practical family car that is also fun to drive.
a home/car loan (= a loan to buy a home or a car )
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They took out a thirty-year home loan.
a house/factory/car etc blaze (= a burning house/factory/car etc )
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Three people were badly hurt in a house blaze.
a luxury car
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The manager drove a luxury car.
a police car
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The men were being followed by an unmarked police car.
armoured car
baggage car
buffet car
bumper car
bus/coach/car etc travel
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The price is £98, inclusive of coach travel.
by car/train/bus/taxi etc
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They travelled to Chicago by train.
cable car
car alarm
car bomb
car boot sale
car chase
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a high-speed car chase
car club
car crime British English (= stealing cars )
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the battle against car crime
car hire
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a car hire company
car keys
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She left her car keys on the hall table.
car maintenance
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an evening class in car maintenance
car park
car pool
car seat
car tax
car theft British English , auto theft AmE:
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Northern Ireland had one of the highest levels of car theft in Europe.
car wash
car/antique/art etc dealer
car/film/shoe etc maker
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a quality furniture maker
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a leading Japanese computer maker
car/motor insurance
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He was fined for driving without motor insurance.
car/television/telephone etc rental
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The price includes accommodation and car rental.
car/ticket/book etc sales
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Car sales have fallen every month for the past two years.
car/train/plane wreck
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My father died in a car wreck.
classic cars
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a collection of classic cars
coffee/wine/car etc producer
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leading oil producers
come by car/train/bus etc
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Will you be coming by train?
company car
computer/car/insurance etc salesman
courtesy bus/taxi/car/phone etc
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The hotel runs a courtesy bus from the airport.
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Most reviewers receive a courtesy copy of the book.
crash a car/bus/plane etc
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He was drunk when he crashed the car.
diesel car/truck etc
dining car
dodgem car
dozens of people/companies/cars etc (= but not hundreds or thousands )
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Dozens of people were killed.
estate car
executive cars/homes etc
freight car
get the car out of the garage
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Wait here while I get the car out of the garage.
get the car/engine etc started
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He couldn’t get his motorbike started.
getaway car/vehicle/van (= a car etc used by criminals to escape after a crime )
go by bus/train/car etc
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It’ll be quicker to go by train.
hybrid car
main/passenger/car etc deck
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a staircase leading to the passenger deck
motor car
motor/car/aircraft etc spares
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a shortage of aircraft spares
Panda car
patrol boat/car (= used by the army or police )
patrol car
put the car etc into (first/second/third etc) gear
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He put the car into gear, and they moved slowly forwards.
put the car in the garage
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Dad's just putting the car in the garage.
race car
racing car
restaurant car
sleeping car
sports car
squad car
stock car
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stock car racing
the coal/car/textile etc industry
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The town was very dependant on the car industry.
the kitchen/car etc window
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She had left the kitchen window open.
toy car/soldier/gun etc
travel by train/car/air etc
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Emily hated travelling by train.
travel/motion/car/sea etc sickness (= sickness that some people get while travelling )
Turning the car around
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Turning the car around , we headed home.
unmarked police car
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an unmarked police car
veteran car
vintage car
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Manufacturers are overcharging motorists about £ 1,100 on the average new car , says the Consumers' Association.
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Concern about unemployment, which in October rose for a third consecutive month, has sapped demand for houses and new cars .
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This week Rover is officially launching its new executive car which will be made at Cowley.
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The new car is a joint development between Honda and the Rover Group.
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Many new models of cars can already run on unleaded petrol without any adjustment.
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People here get just as excited about the prospect of buying a new bike as they might a new car .
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Mr Friend, now the £50,000-a-year council chief executive, showered her with luxuries including a new car and a horse.
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A proposal to build a new 350-space car park right next to the Musée d'Art Américain created a storm of protest.
■ NOUN
accident
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To take one example, a man was killed in a car accident .
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I thought he had been in a car accident that had killed everyone else.
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In that case the plaintiff had been involved in a car accident .
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Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents , limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
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For he was not killed in a car accident .
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It turned up a 1993 car accident in Tallahassee.
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Out of 9,000 children killed or injured in car accidents every year, only 8 die in safety seats.
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Colorado rancher Atticus Cody lost his wife years ago in a car accident .
bomb
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A car bomb shook Madrid's Barajas airport.
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Carl Krebsbach wore it out when he sent away for $ 20 worth of car bombs .
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Up to 13 bombs went off across the city, many of them car bombs.
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For the first time here in recent years, a car bomb was used against a civilian official.
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He had an idea there had been a car bomb at another barracks.
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In a weekend of violence, the defence minister, Khaled Nezzar, narrowly escaped from a car bomb attack.
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A car bomb explodes in Main Street, destroying scores of shops and businesses.
boot
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After the truck, the car boot even with Brian sharing it, was relatively comfortable.
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The remarks followed a court case in which a couple admitted selling counterfeit software at car boot sales.
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Theodora swung her leather valise from the car boot into the dimly lit entrance hall.
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Market stalls, car boot sales and one-day sales are popular selling grounds.
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Voice over Anyone considering selling counterfeit goods at car boot sales could face two years in prison or unlimited fines.
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But that law can't be used to stop people selling heaters at car boot sales.
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Overall complaints about car boot sales have risen from virtually nil to around ten a week in just two years.
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A car boot sale at Boxted Airfield has also been called off.
cable
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It is centrally situated, and a ten minute walk from the cable car which leads to some magnificent mountain walks.
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These were filled with images of street scenes, of clattering cable cars and the sound of the foghorns on Alcatraz.
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From the village, a 10-minute cable car ride delivers you to the slopes.
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The accidents, which involved streetcars and cable cars , caused $ 3. 6 million in damages and injured 10 people.
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The less energetic could take the easy walk to the cable car and ride to the summit of Mount Mottarone.
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Irene daydreamed incessantly of hilly streets, cable cars , Chinatown and Rice-o-Roni.
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Cross-country skiing is very popular and cable cars and ski lifts take the skiers up to the snow fields.
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Little cable cars climbing half way to the stars?
company
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Many employers are now cutting back on company cars .
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That was a lot of money for the time, and the horse was like having a company car today.
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But it is possible to reduce company car costs while increasing the employee's perceived remuneration.
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Bob already had a nice new company car .
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I told him that he had six months and if he performed well I'd buy him a company car .
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The higher grades of employee were supplied, as was the custom with many firms, with shiny, new company cars .
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Now, however, the company car market is being hit by monster taxes and it's dying.
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They took over the main Fleetwood service from the old Company cars , which were then used on the short-workings.
crash
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Four hurt: Four men were treated in hospital after a head-on car crash at Musham Bank, Scarborough.
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A car crash , an earthquake, a burning factory are much better.
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The brave star, who lost an arm in a car crash eight years ago, now uses a specially adapted kit.
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It was the car crash again.
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Rade Markovic is being questioned about a car crash in 1999 in which opposition leader Vuk Draskovic was injured.
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Lise marries Michael, who is killed in a car crash .
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Car crash: Three people were injured in a car crash at a North York Moors beauty spot.
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There were arrests, car crashes and other trouble.
crime
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Higher insurance as car crime rockets.
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Car crime: A crackdown on car crime has been mounted in Redcar.
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Two types of car crime offenders concern us.
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This means, in a year, car crime accounts for more than five million pounds in Milton Keynes.
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Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime , which is a major aspect of youth crime.
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And the more car crime there is, the more it costs to insure.
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The police have taken action to combat the wave of car crime .
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The insurance industry is also very concerned about rising car crime .
dealer
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Battle continues: A lengthy battle between a scrap car dealer and Sedgefield District Council remains unresolved.
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What must the car dealer have made of this client, a man from prehistory come to buy an automobile?
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Local car dealer Cowie, now regarded as the quality stock in the sector, also outperformed the market strongly.
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Many area used car dealers are having their inventory tested or offering to test before purchase.
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The usual illustration is a car dealer stating that one car is a better runner than another.
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City ordinances did little to protect the site, which was owned by a local car dealer .
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The first is a puzzle that will not surprise those who put economists alongside journalists and car dealers in their not-to-be-trusted rankings.
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The mathematical exercises which follow are mainly to do with shopkeepers and car dealers making profit or loss.
door
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Indeed, as he shut the car door , he brushed at one sleeve as if to remove wrinkles as well as fluff.
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As soon as we opened the car doors we could hear the sizzling of the rattlesnakes.
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She smiled as the car door was closed behind her.
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In fact, he instinctively stepped backwards into the plantation as the car door was thrown open.
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I slammed the car door as I got out.
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McQuaid slammed the car door and walked towards the house.
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There was the slamming of a car door .
industry
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The environment poses another major challenge to reliance on the car industry .
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A redundant fitter from the Coventry car industry in his mid-forties lives alone and receives £61.02 a fortnight.
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How should they use it to plan the future of the car industry and those who depend on it?
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In recent months the car industry has laid off thousands of workers and put many more on short time.
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In the case of the car industry , in the case of Ford, it's even higher.
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The calculation has been made by the Edison electric Institute, Department of Energy and electric car industry officials.
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The car industry is always one of the first to suffer.
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So they followed their cousins in the car industry and made their buildings with built-in obsolescence.
key
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Even the car keys or a belt buckle may upset things if placed too close.
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This is a man, after all, who leaves his car keys in the front seat with the doors unlocked.
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Even as the thought had come Paige had been gathering up her purse and the car keys .
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For security, some systems also kill the engine if a person tries to drive the vehicle without the car key .
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He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself.
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A visitor was attempting to lure a squirrel close for a picture by dangling and rattling his car keys .
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He reached into his pocket for his car keys .
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That night, when I went to bed, I found the registration and car keys on my bed table.
maker
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The government puts particular blame on car makers and pharmaceutical companies for an inflation rate that in December was nearly 20%.
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But reality soon set in, both for the car makers and the government.
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Yes, that's right, the car maker .
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This year it is different, and well worth catching a glimpse of the latest from the world's car makers .
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Whenever the global economy is doing well, car makers immediately start work on a range of cars for the plutocrats.
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The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses.
motor
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But every scrap of information paints a picture of an all-time great motor car .
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In front of the shallow steps that led to the door were parked two - no three, motor cars .
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My reason is that our cities are now designed round the motor car .
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The collapse was not directly linked to the motor car side, but it threatened the cars' future.
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The motor car is private transport, available only to its owner and his immediate circle.
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Sadly these have now disappeared, pushed aside by the needs of the motor car .
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Its recognition of the significance of the motor car and its removal to the edge of the main city area was ominous.
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It's a very important motor car .
park
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My dad would park the Horsebox in the pub's car park.
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He pulled into the station car park , slammed on the brakes, and made no effort to get out of the van.
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Take the track which is a continuation of the access road to the Arnside Knott car park .
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They thought the entrance to the car park on the sheet was not in the best place, so they changed it.
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He found her blue Ford Escort in the car park .
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Immediately below, beyond the police car park , was a street of substantial Victorian villas.
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Sad excuse for a car park , and soil left unwanted after an archaeological dig.
patrol
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The patrol car arrives again and parks across the road from us.
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Fifteen to twenty minutes later a patrol car drove up.
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There will already be a couple of chaps in a patrol car down a side street as a matter of course.
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If a Highway Patrol car was going to slip up from behind, it would be right about now.
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His successors now carry body armour in their patrol cars .
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Consequently, the riders were escorted to the state line where Mississippi patrol cars took over.
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Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire.
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When Lombardy left home about 8 a.m., the detective followed and alerted an officer in a patrol car .
sale
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Treasury chiefs are furious at the move that more than wipes out the benefits of the scrapping of the car sales tax.
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Chrysler dipped 3 / 4 to 55; the company said car sales last month fell 8 %.
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In the first 20 days of December, car sales were 30% higher than over the same period in 1991.
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Auto dealers also may feel some pain as car sales will slow after two strong years.
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And then he reads the figures which show that new car sales are still increasing.
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On a gloomier note, employment continued to decline and car sales remained depressed.
seat
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Ensure you use the correct fitting kit for your make and model of car seat .
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When it came time to get a car seat , I looked up that category.
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The hot car seats stung the children's bare legs and made them cry out in protest.
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Officers found used hypodermic needles in a trailer in the backyard next to an infant car seat .
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Some baby seats can be converted into car seats for older children.
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Miguel told him, picking a spot opposite the car seat for the desk.
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Boots have stopped selling car seats but say they will offer further information to people who've bought the Rainbow seat.
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He thought about hiding it in the car seat , but Firebug was always moving the thing around.
■ VERB
buy
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Mrs Davos, sick of flying, decides they should buy a car from Fat Frank.
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He bought cars , a classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle, boats, travel trailers and expensive pickups.
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Buy an Aston Martin; buy a car for life.
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Men buy cars , computers, records, photographic, sound and sports equipment.
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Decided that I needed to buy a new car .
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They may also like to think very carefully about where to go when buying a second hand car .
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Paquita was on my side and steadily urged me not to buy Clarisa a car .
drive
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Whoever was driving the car had been trying to kill her, it was as simple as that.
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Toyota plans annual sales of 20, 000 of the right-hand-\#drive Cavalier cars .
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It was impossible to drive the car slow.
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In that case, Mrs. Pepper alleged that Mrs. Healey had driven into her car causing damage amounting to £133.
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He left Apple, and for years was so bitter that he refused to drive his car anywhere near the Cupertino campus.
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The feet should both be pointing forward with the arms placed in front of the body, as though one were driving a car .
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The accused received permission to drive the victim's car to the station.
get
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But I like him, thought Antony as they got out of the car .
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I drove back to the school to find Ben, but by the time I got there his car was gone.
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Looking out, she saw men in suits getting into the medium-sized cars .
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One day, several weeks before, Harold came running up to me as I was getting out of my car .
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That was your own fault for trying to make me get back into the car .
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He got back into his car , his face throbbing, his sides aching.
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Just get in the car and go - if you got lost just stop and ask. 2.
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The frantic driver was able to get out of his car and call emergency services on his mobile phone.
leave
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He climbed out leaving the car upended on its roof.
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They leave , the two cars follow the same escape plan they used at Danvers.
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They made a white flag and left by car .
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How did she avoid sweating into it when she left her car for the walk to the office?
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He awoke, forgetting he had left his car in gear, and switched on the engine.
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As I leave the car , I see that the little boy is now fast asleep.
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Doyle left the car too and stepped into an oriental bric-à-brac shop.
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Under the program that lasted through Monday, more than one million people were told to leave their cars at home.
race
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He had come up through motorcycle racing and saloon cars .
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Residents of Albatross Way have been suffering sleepless nights, plagued by rogue drivers racing their cars behind Presto supermarket.
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Howard Baker raced in a police car to Ford headquarters to make one last pitch for the deal.
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The jury has been told that it must decide whether or not the two men were racing their cars .
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Let us assume that Mr Peter Porter, an otherwise staid bureaucrat, spends his free time racing Porsche cars .
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Another of Shaffer's passions is racing his Formula Ford car to unwind in what little spare time he has.
run
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Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers.
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He had run his car into a light pole.
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It was tempting fate to run the new car in public-but McLaren had thought of that.
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Miguel got the serious giggles as he ran from the car , stumbling over bricks.
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He ran quickly to the car , not looking at the sign again.
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I had a twinge of hard joy as I ran after the car .
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They ran over to her car .
sell
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Mrs. Hamblin would have been precluded from denying the trader's authority to sell the car .
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Voice over Anyone considering selling counterfeit goods at car boot sales could face two years in prison or unlimited fines.
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Infiniti sold 3, 494 cars in December, up 3. 5 % from a year earlier.
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Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
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Last year, Mazda took another step when it decided to sell Anfini channel cars through its Eunos dealerships.
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But that law can't be used to stop people selling heaters at car boot sales.
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For all of 1995, the luxurycar line sold 58, 616 cars , 14. 3 % more than in 1994.
steal
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Diving gear: Diving equipment and clothing worth £1,145 was stolen from Beaumont Street car park, Darlington, at the weekend.
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In March of 1994, I was convicted of stealing a car and two bicycles.
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Jacket taken: A sports jacket worth £100 was stolen from a car at Cod Beck reservoir near Osmotherley.
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It has also introduced excess payments for when goods are stolen from people's cars .
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He specialized in finding stolen luxury cars , developing excellent contacts with both police and criminals.
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The trouble was, he didn't know how to steal a car .
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It also attracts criminals, mostly nonviolent, who drive to trail heads and parking areas to steal from cars and campsites.
stop
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I stopped my car to observe more carefully what was going on, hoping the man behind me would not become impatient.
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Please, Khanji, could you stop the car ?
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On 2 July 1987 her husband had stopped the car in front of her and insisted that she should sign, but she refused.
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During the drive home, we stop the car on the side of the highway, climb out and stare upward.
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Something else might have stopped the car .
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Usually, I was too shy to stop the car and go closer.
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Roman stopped the car and climbed out, came around to open her door.
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He stopped the car and rubbed his eyes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus load/car load/truck load etc
baby/child/car seat
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Boots have stopped selling car seats but say they will offer further information to people who've bought the Rainbow seat.
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He thought about hiding it in the car seat , but Firebug was always moving the thing around.
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However, a baby seat is safer than a carrycot for your baby.
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It fits all Kangol framed child seats .
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Miguel told him, picking a spot opposite the car seat for the desk.
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Some baby seats can be converted into car seats for older children.
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Two options you can not add, unfortunately, are a built-in child seat and fold down rear seatback.
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When buying a baby seat check its weight, capacity and whether it has an integral harness and quick-release buckle.
car/bike/greyhound etc racing
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As a boy you were so butch it hurt. Bike racing champ, marble wizard.
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Home of County cricket, League football and a greyhound racing stadium.
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Mosley's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession.
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Sporting events such as car racing give me a headache.
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Stock car racing , they say, is family-oriented.
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Stock car racing , though, is old-fashioned.
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The move would not interfere with greyhound racing and would leave the old Plough Lane football ground available for redevelopment.
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They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags!
desk/car/sink tidy
have access to a car/a computer etc
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It is seen as an effective means of business communication where relevant staff have access to a computer network.
high-performance cars/computers/tyres etc
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The high-performance cars are strictly for the racetrack ... and the message is, going too fast on the roads can kill.
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Under the month-long offer, basic models will be £200 cheaper, with the maximum discount on high-performance cars.
model aircraft/train/car etc
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
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Andrew has been prompted to make a model car like his dad's.
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Corgi sent a full range of their model cars, including Rolls Royces and Porsches.
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Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.
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I built model cars when I was younger.
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Loafers that looked more like model cars.
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Some people like model trains or football.
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The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather.
musician/player/car etc of the year
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A former Car of the Year winner, it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here.
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All won national Player of the Year honors during their Bruins careers.
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Going up against league player of the year Mary Raskauskas, Thompson tallied 17 points and 10 rebounds.
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Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season, but they've let me have him for six months.
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On defense, Mutombo, the three-time defensive player of the year , hung around the lane to block and alter shots.
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Then came the news of Price, the two-time City 4-A Player of the Year .
oncoming car/traffic etc
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It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic, with its headlights on.
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No oncoming traffic, he said.
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The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
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The person driving was forced to stop when Glover walked himself and Paul almost into the oncoming car.
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There was the fork ahead of him, and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic.
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This will mean that you have to look only one way for the oncoming traffic.
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We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
used cars/clothes etc
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Crackdown shows one third of used cars are not safe.
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However, with used cars, who knows?
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Leased a gravel lot for $ 15 a month and sold used cars.
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Now the tax on importing used cars has been slashed.
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The family also sticks to used cars.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cars were parked on both sides of the road.
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I stayed in the dining car , drinking a glass of red wine.
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You can take my car to work today if you need to.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But that law can't be used to stop people selling heaters at car boot sales.
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Further reports on lighting and car loans will be presented to the council in coming months.
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He had trouble getting the car on the phone and he finally located one.
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Out on the street the man escorted Lee to a green-and-white squad car .
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That car collided with the vehicle in which Waltrick was riding.
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The car where Uday met his fate?
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The thugs stole £20 from his wallet before fleeing the car park at Reading, Berks.
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To make such trips affordable, students drive their own cars, following the teachers.