Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | If things had turned out differently I 'd been driving you down here . |
| 2 | And ever since then , more or less , I 've been driving . |
| 3 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 4 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 5 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been driving a lot . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 9 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 10 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 11 | With regard to the Bill , after 30 years at the criminal Bar and 35 years in politics , I have been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that fear is a more effective motivator of human behaviour than anything else , especially when dealing with people of ill will . |
| 12 | I have been driving the best of the best-selling model , the X2 1.5 hatchback , updated at the last Motor Show . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julie continued , ‘ I have been driving Aunt Polly 's Chevvy for absolutely ages in the States . ’ |
| 14 | For the last few days , I have been driving Citroen 's latest addition to the ZX range the Aura Turbo Diesel . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 17 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 18 | She 'd been driving along the A420 Oxford to Swindon road at Pusey woods , when she was hit head-on by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 19 | You 've been driving me crazy , but now I 'm going to have your body , and if it 's the last time then so be it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sweetheart , you 're so beautiful … you 've been driving me crazy … ’ |
| 21 | When you 've been driving a car , and hirpling about on motorbikes using L plates , as aged car users are allowed to with anything under 125cc or possessing a sidecar , you think you know it all . |
| 22 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 23 | There would be no need to tell them she had been driving very fast . |
| 24 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 25 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 26 | Innocuous though most of her poems were , she had been driven by the stupidity and cowardice of the censorship to publish in samizdat . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone does , ’ said Comfort , forgetting the times when she had been driven to distracted cruelty by Julia 's unfailing matter-of-factness — and by her concentration on other people . |
| 28 | Threats had been made to her and the children and in the end she had been driven over the edge . |
| 29 | No , these days I 'm concentrating on passing my motorcycle test — a complex business , even if you have been driving a car on and sometimes off the road for nigh on 20 less than accident-free years . |
| 30 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |