Example sentences of "have been driving [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reubens Barrichello has been driving competitively since he was six . |
| 2 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 3 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 4 | Someone who 's not from the area could have been driving through and seen something . ’ |
| 5 | The road was wet and your mother has suggested that your father may have been driving exceptionally fast . ’ |
| 6 | Otherwise I 'd have been driving tonight |
| 7 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been driving tremendously . |
| 10 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |
| 11 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 12 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 13 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There would be no need to tell them she had been driving very fast . |
| 16 | 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 , |
| 17 | He had been driving too fast , that was what the police had said , and she could believe it now — he always had , when he was down , sunk into that deep trough of depression that occasionally consumed him , so that he lost all self-belief , all self-esteem . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 20 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 21 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |