Example sentences of "drove [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We retraced our steps to the car , and Gerry next drove me to a field near Dundalk where he said he could show me an altar used in the Penal Days . |
| 2 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 3 | Irena drove me to the station , past the monastery that is now a military hospital , along the main road north where tanks rumble across at night . |
| 4 | They drove me to the police station . |
| 5 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 6 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 7 | My little local survey drove me to the conclusion that the Woolwich , in fact , offers some of the lowest rates on the market . |
| 8 | He said as much when he got up and drove me to the airport . ’ |
| 9 | They won their obscenity trial but poverty drove them to a caravan beside a Methodist chapel where they lived off skips , meeting other swinging exiles and learning how much people waste . |
| 10 | Dad drove them to a big hotel and Jane and Mike were there already waiting for them . |
| 11 | Discussing Mr Cottle as Stanley drove them to the auction , Emily said : ‘ He was here when Rose … ’ |
| 12 | An armed gang of fans of Umtata Bucks surrounded Da Silva 's house in Umtata , ordered him and his family to pack their bags , drove them to the local airport , gave them tickets and cash and forced them aboard a Johannesburg-bound flight . |
| 13 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 14 | The Crown claims that Gallen picked up the bombers in Donegal , drove them to the yard and returned an hour later to pick them up . |
| 15 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 16 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 17 | They bundled him into a car and drove him to a car park at the rear of Dysart Police Headquarters and afterwards to an isolated road . |
| 18 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 19 | The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang . |
| 20 | In 1939 bad health drove him to a sanatorium in French Savoy . |
| 21 | Mann said it could be done and Denega drove him to the chapel to see ‘ if the small cracks in the facade could be enlarged ’ . |
| 22 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 23 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 24 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 25 | His fear of death — the punishment for murder — drove him to the hiding-place of Jekyll 's body . |
| 26 | In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport . |
| 27 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 28 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 29 | The woman has alleged that after agreeing to give her a lift home from a discotheque , the officer drove her to a deserted allotment , threatened her by pushing his truncheon under her chin and then raped her . |
| 30 | He then drove her to a house in the near by village of Olney where she was raped again . |