Example sentences of "[pers pn] be driving [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great many divers will know what I 'm driving at . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 'm driving at , boy , is that , even when you become reacquainted with a part of your body , that meeting has its characteristic mental agenda . |
| 3 | Direct proportionality , if I 'm driving at a steady sixty miles an hour , how far would I go in erm one hour ? |
| 4 | But you know what I 'm driving at ? ’ |
| 5 | Do you see what I 'm driving at ? ’ |
| 6 | What I 'm driving at is , did in your , in the time you were there ever the , the workers ever get into a situation where they wanted to come out in support of another dispute in another place of work ? |
| 7 | Anyway , you can see the point I 'm driving at . |
| 8 | As Noel Blanc , who has a collection of 20 classic cars , explains : ‘ When I 'm driving down the street in my hot-rod , people are waving at me and giving me the thumbs up . |
| 9 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 10 | I was driving through the warren of small , mean , shop-lined streets towards St George 's Circus where Lambeth Road meets Blackfriars Road , leading to the bridge . |
| 11 | So that when , later that summer , I was driving through Highburn I paused in anticipation outside the Bailes farm . |
| 12 | I was driving through what , eighteen inches of water . |
| 13 | ‘ Once I was driving up High Street East in Sunderland with a local priest when I saw a furniture van ahead with its ramp down . |
| 14 | Occasionally , people act very strangely — I was driving down Edgware Road once and a taxi driver pulled up by me , and said , ‘ Sting ! |
| 15 | erm I was driving past it learning to drive , concentrating like mad and the driving instructor er , said to me , and it was only the second what , second , third , fourth lesson , it was early on in the |
| 16 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |
| 17 | Cos I was driving with the window open . |
| 18 | One recent exresident , Kenny Taylor , who himself grew up as a son of a criminal in the East-End , says , ‘ Since becoming a Christian , I have passed my driving test — I was driving at the age of ten , but now I drive with tax and insurance ! ’ |
| 19 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 20 | I wondered if he was too obtuse to pick up what I was driving at ; he was a simple soldier , after all , serving his country to the best of his ability , etc. , etc . |
| 21 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 22 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 23 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 24 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 25 | ‘ Before the band ever happened I was driving around Hammersmith roundabout and I saw ‘ Nude picture of Patsy Kensit ! ’ on a sign , and I remember being slightly jealous , thinking . |
| 26 | I was driving in London recently and was sent crazy by roadworks and closed bridges at almost every turn . |
| 27 | Another way of looking at tranquillizer use is to think of the following analogy : you are driving along the motorway and suddenly your car oil warning light comes on . |
| 28 | Imagine you are driving at midday . |
| 29 | If you 're driving to Brighton please note that a parking voucher scheme operates in the centre of the town . |
| 30 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |