Example sentences of "they have [been] drive " in BNC.

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1 They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear .
2 They 've rubbed shoulders with Spinal Tap on the West Coast , they 've ‘ schmoozed ’ with David Cassidy , Brinsley Forde and Huey Lewis at a San Francisco garden party , they 've been driven around the Hollywood Hills in a convertible by an A&M rep who then let them stare at his Moray eels , smashed , for two hours .
3 Conservationist Dexter Cate of Hawaii was jailed for 100 days in 1980 when he released several hundred dolphins from the bay into which they had been driven before slaughter .
4 They had been driven far further north than he had expected .
5 They had been driven by brute necessity to defend one country .
6 As a result they had been driven out of the city by Richard 's agents and the cathedral was closed for twenty-one months .
7 Subjects were asked to continue describing different junctions until no more stood out in their memory but not to attempt to recall all the junctions , nor to deliberately recall them in the order they had been driven through .
8 Several subjects reported that they felt that they would be able to give far more information if they were permitted to recall the junctions in the order in which they had been driven .
9 It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before .
10 Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track .
11 They had been driving through Wales , to the sea , and Carrie had turned off the main road into a narrow valley and said , this was where she and Uncle Nick had lived for a while in the war , would they like to stop the night and see ?
12 They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question .
13 They had already started to look at houses — not any close inspection , just murmured approval as they had been driving , Glyn 's comments warming her .
14 She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains .
15 She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days .
16 To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics .
17 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 . ’
18 Tree logs are to be found only in the shallow waters and in Urquhan Bay , Lochend and Dores , where they have been driven by the prevailing wind .
19 And Sarrance is the setting in which her group of competing story-tellers gather , after they have been driven out of the spa of Cauterets , up in the mountains , by bad weather .
20 Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here .
21 Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful .
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