Example sentences of "driven back to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Had a good day ? ’ asked Iris as she settled into the Golf to be driven back to the auberge at the end of the afternoon .
2 But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive .
3 The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench .
4 It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard .
5 Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk .
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