Example sentences of "driven [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state . |
| 2 | It was being driven towards Weatherbury by two farm workers , who had not noticed Gabriel . |
| 3 | Civilian ‘ lodges ’ , widespread by 1817 , were driven towards action by military ‘ trenches ’ . |
| 4 | But driven like Othello by his rages |
| 5 | In 1873 the Sao João sugar factory opened with the most modern machinery , but it had been driven into bankruptcy by the 1880s . |
| 6 | At this point the Skeleton rejoins the fray , driven into frenzy by its realisation . |
| 7 | The thunder of the surf became a muted whisper , driven into silence by the rustling of branches and the innumerable calls of night animals , bats and insects . |
| 8 | They had five sons and eight daughters , and Dresser 's hectic career was driven in part by the need to support them all . |
| 9 | She appealed for society to sit up and take notice of problems faced by young people driven from home by sexual abuse , violence or neglect . |
| 10 | Diana packed her bags and joined her sisters and brother Charles who had been driven from Eton by his brother-in-law , Robert Fellowes . |
| 11 | He combed the records and learnt that two of Suite 1723 's former occupants had died in office and another ( like Orton , a Utah man ) was driven from Washington by scandal . |
| 12 | None of the press reports say any more about the other Utah occupant of 1723 ‘ driven from Washington by scandal ’ ; that would surely be more interesting , if equally immaterial to the issue of ghostly origins . |
| 13 | Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power . |
| 14 | Individual ministers were censured and driven from office by the House , examples being Russell in 1855 and Ellenborough in 1858 . |
| 15 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 16 | It admits that people may be driven to vice by desperation or cruel social circumstances . |
| 17 | Robert Polhill , a US lecturer , was freed in West Beirut on April 22 and was immediately driven to Damascus by Syrian security officials . |
| 18 | Driven to fury by his goading and by her own uncontrollable reactions to him , Shannon all but spat the words . |
| 19 | One doctor , driven to desperation by a patient , found herself saying , ‘ You seem to be a very strong woman and you have managed to reduce your husband to impotence . |
| 20 | WHEN law-abiding citizens are driven to desperation by criminals who apparently flout the law with impunity , it is hard to blame them when they take things into their own hands . |
| 21 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 22 | And apart from moments when you wanted … when … ’ she shot her chin up aggressively at his amused look ‘ … when you were after sex , ’ she said , driven to boldness by his taunting mockery , ‘ you 've been hostile and unwelcoming to me . ’ |
| 23 | He , poor fellow , was being driven to distraction by the pain in his right shoulder . |
| 24 | This was true in so far as RCM workers were frequently driven to distraction by what they saw as unreasonable demands by orthodox children and their elders . |
| 25 | Thelma & Louise — driven to distraction by their oh-so-ordinary lives , Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon hit the road with a vengeance . |
| 26 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 27 | If there is a life hereafter , then surely we will find Fred Daly strolling down an Elysian Fairway , whistling in his own inimitable style , his gallery enthralled by the perceptible body sway on the backswing before launching a colossal drive from the tee , enchanted by the purity of his iron play and driven to distraction by precisely 32 lifts of the putter blade from the back to the top of the ball before he sends it with authority into the cup . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 29 | I 'm sure we can all recall cases of being driven to distraction by blaring music and late night noise especially during the working week . |
| 30 | A town is being driven to distraction by emergency stops and three point turns . |