Example sentences of "have been drive back " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that year , the Norwegian Olaf and Swegan the Dane vented their fury on the shire , having been driven back from an attempt on London . |
| 2 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 3 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 4 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 5 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 6 | On Jan. 25 the government claimed that the rebels had suffered many casualties and had been driven back over the border into Uganda . |
| 7 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 8 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 9 | The troglodytic Soviets have been driven back into their frozen potholes : the camp doctor steadies his monocle and reaches for his mustiest text-book . |