Example sentences of "been drive [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
| 2 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |
| 3 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 5 | He had been driving along the twisting mountain roads when he 'd crashed ; that much she knew . |
| 6 | She 'd been driving along the A420 Oxford to Swindon road at Pusey woods , when she was hit head-on by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 7 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 10 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 11 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 12 | Although the vast majority are hardened by their loss , others have been driven over the edge of madness . |
| 13 | Threats had been made to her and the children and in the end she had been driven over the edge . |
| 14 | The Major had told us that he was plagued with poachers , particularly since the new road had been driven up the hill from the Aberfeldy side ; and that he very much doubted if there were any fish left in Loch a'Chait . |
| 15 | Having been driven with the children into Mondano he had wandered off on his own unexplained concerns . |
| 16 | By 1972 , presumably to guide people in the same predicament , posts five feet high had been driven into the ground beside the track . |
| 17 | These hairs have been driven into the wound but not cut through — you see ? |
| 18 | IBM has been driven into the System V camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 19 | IBM has been driven into the SVR4 camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 20 | Ariel starts across the clearing ; the trees and undergrowth , the tangle of roots and flowers have been razed , she must trudge across open ground to reach the sea , which is her aim ; she will walk out on the west side of the settlement 's boundaries , where the stockade has not yet been driven into the beach , past the rinsing and brewing pools which have already come to look neglected , the waterline slimy with weed , the flies hatching on the surface . |
| 21 | What she had seen was a Scarag , impaled through the jaw and hanging limp on Scathach 's lance , which had been driven into the ground . |
| 22 | About 40 per cent of the 300,000 inhabitants have been driven off the land by the shrimp firms mainly in the direction of the overcrowded cities . |
| 23 | ‘ We have therefore been driven to the conclusion that the court has power to , and should , intervene , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Now , in these latter sixteenth-century days , Knollys 's shipyard had been driven to the building of more modest ships , and confined itself mainly to boats no larger than forty or fifty tons — small merchantmen for the most part , which sailed for their owners to Italy and Spain with cargoes of wool , tin and salt fish . |
| 25 | She might just as well have been driven to the airport by taxi , Jenna mourned . |
| 26 | Araminta had been driven to the celebrations in the gig by Adam Diggory , scorning Benedict 's escort , and Mrs Diggory had been permitted to accompany them so that she might visit her mother , who lived on the Switham estates . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been driven to the hospital . |
| 28 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 29 | Innocuous though most of her poems were , she had been driven by the stupidity and cowardice of the censorship to publish in samizdat . |
| 30 | The proliferation of business information sources has been driven by the increasing ease with which information can be made publicly available through advances in IT , and of course by the availability of cash to purchase those resources . |