Example sentences of "[vb past] been driving [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He had no convictions prior to this incident and had been driving a car since 1957 . ’ |
| 3 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |
| 4 | On the facts before it , which concerned a death from a lorry shedding its load , the court held that the police were wrong to arrest for manslaughter the person whom they thought had been driving the truck : there was a wide gap between a suspicion that somebody was driving a truck , and a suspicion that they were driving it recklessly . |
| 5 | Even though he was still only sixteen , Wayne had been driving the yard 's vehicles around the quiet back roads in the off-season for the past two years . |