1.   I strongly recommend that you get your brakes checked before you go on a long drive.

2.   As we slowly crawled down the eastern slope, I was hoping the driver had checked the brakes before we left.

3.   Fifteen years since Bigham and his colleague, Marian Ryan, pulled over on Memorial Drive to check the brakes on his blue Volkswagen.

4.   He reminded drivers to check their brakes on the back straightaway on the lap they planned to make a pit stop.

5.   Hearing what bad brakes sound like is more effective than being told to check your brakes if they squeal or grind.

6.   Its brakes had been checked twice as part of routine inspections in the previous week, according to MTA records.