Example sentences of "be driving [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 6 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 10 | We 're driving down this road and I said well Pisa 's down here |
| 11 | hang on to somebody elses tail lights , it gives us a false sense of security watch your speed , you may be going much faster than you think , do not speed up to get away from the vehicle which is too close behind you , remember that if you 're driving with heavy people it may take longer to pull up and speed on ahead , warning signals or |
| 12 | ‘ If you 're driving like this to try and prove something , do n't bother on my account , ’ she said . |
| 13 | The blood seemed to be driving in great swoops through her head . |
| 14 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 15 | He was both puzzled and annoyed by the number of drivers who swished past him as though they were driving in bright sunshine . |
| 16 | Mansell is driving with former Formula One and Indycar champion Mario Andretti , once his teammate with Lotus in the early 1980s , but still a rival this weekend . |
| 17 | Now watch this , as we go through the tack the sail is driving for most of the time just flapping briefly as the sail turns through the wind . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | He was driving at 100 k.p.h . |
| 20 | Dangerous driving is usually reserved for intentional dangerous driving or where it can be proved the defendant was driving in such a way as to fall within the new definition of ‘ driving dangerously ’ in section 2A ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |