Example sentences of "[verb] been driving for " in BNC.
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1 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
2 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
3 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
4 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
5 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
6 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
7 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
8 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
9 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
10 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
11 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
12 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
13 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
14 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
15 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
16 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |