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blacknomi · #1 (**permalink**) 10-Nov-2004, 17:42

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/200.html

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Q11 - He lost his driving licence after he ran ...... a child because he was driving too fast and couldn't stop in time
(1)after
(2)out of
(3)over

Oh boy! How come you have this bloody thing!

Francois · #2 (**permalink**) 10-Nov-2004, 18:15

That's a sort of real-life sentence unfortunately.

FRC

blacknomi · #3 (**permalink**) 10-Nov-2004, 18:25

A death sentence!

Francois · #4 (**permalink**) 10-Nov-2004, 18:51

Hope they'll run out of gas (or is it fuel injection?)

FRC

Steven D · #5 (**permalink**) 10-Nov-2004, 20:17

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Originally Posted by blacknomi

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/200.html

Oh boy! How come you have this bloody thing!

Getting run over is not good any way we look at it. I suppose the driver could've run over a dog. There has to be some way of showing what "run over" means.

Know what I mean?

I would tend to agree with what Francois says. It's reality.

Steven D · #6 (**permalink**) 11-Nov-2004, 00:00

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Originally Posted by blacknomi

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/200.html

Oh boy! How come you have this bloody thing!

In American English we wouldn't say driving license. We say, driver's license.

**Tdol** · #7 (**permalink**) 11-Nov-2004, 04:38

I must have been in a bad mood or something when I wrote it. It's very hard to write sentences thatonly have one possible answer- there's alwats someone who'll pop up with a different interpretation. I didn't mean any offence. ;-0

Steven D · #8 (**permalink**) 11-Nov-2004, 04:42

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Originally Posted by tdol

I must have been in a bad mood or something when I wrote it. It's very hard to write sentences thatonly have one possible answer- there's alwats someone who'll pop up with a different interpretation. I didn't mean any offence. ;-0

By "driving license" do you mean a license that drives or a license to drive?

Look at that! It's a driving license.