Example sentences of "we have [been] drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been driving a car like this for years . |
| 2 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 3 | Luckily , our ship was not badly damaged , but we had been driven over two thousand kilometres to the east . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 6 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |
| 7 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 8 | Alison , 26 , who has two children — Tracey , 3 , and Antony , 15 months — said : ‘ We have been driven out of the house by this evil spirit . |