Example sentences of "driven [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McAuley , who has driven for the factory teams of Swift and Van Diemen over the past two years , had hoped to graduate to Formula Three this season , but was unable to raise the £150,000 budget . |
| 2 | Law Update : Driven off the road |
| 3 | Alternatively , it is claimed , such a system would be inequitable since poorer motorists would be driven off the roads . |
| 4 | Much of this expenditure , which has taken such a toll , on both the exchequer and the environment , has been based on a simple assumption which is deeply embedded in agricultural thinking : that excess water is the enemy of good husbandry and must be driven off the land . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Mozambique in 1990 250,000 people were driven off the land by clashes between government and rebel forces . |
| 7 | When we had driven off the land , Signe and Harvey had studied the shrinkage and cracking of the ice at the water 's edge and pronounced it safe . |
| 8 | Rainwater , driven off the highway , fell in a solid wall that cut them off from any view of the outside world . |
| 9 | But the shafting , of course it was driven off the shafting and we had l lathes and drilling machines . |
| 10 | At least the drought had driven off the mosquitoes . |
| 11 | An attempt by the authorities to raid the casinos in July 1989 had ended with state police and Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents being driven off the reservation by a group of heavily-armed pro-casino Mohawks known as the Warriors Society . |
| 12 | He eventually was driven off the farm but the respectable white people who went to church . |
| 13 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 14 | I used to play cricket until about ten years ago , when the A470 was driven through the village pitch . |
| 15 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 16 | The latest effort to prevent too wide a wedge being driven through the concept of Europe had failed . |
| 17 | On March 18 Soviet military transport planes circled over Vilnius and other Lithuanian towns for most of the day , while from March 22 convoys of armoured vehicles were regularly driven through the centre of Vilnius . |
| 18 | I was driven through the gate when I first arrived and she was shut out ; she and her baby . |
| 19 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 20 | First , after about twelve miles and just after you have driven through the limestone defile of Escot , there is Sarrance , a colourless , silent village these days but an old place of pilgrimage and of literary inspiration . |
| 21 | Night had fallen over Chiguana and , as the doctor 's wife had predicted , the Lower Bolivian Liberation Force had driven through the town , firing randomly and inspiring fear in all . |
| 22 | At just after eight last night he was being driven through the town centre . |
| 23 | A tunnel driven through the Galaxy 's fog |
| 24 | Use a seven point scale where 1 would indicate that you have never previously driven through the junction and 7 would indicate that you drive through the junction nearly every day ’ . |
| 25 | Kim Roosevelt went to see him , driven through the palace gates lying under a blanket in the back of a car . |
| 26 | Can the family help or allow the child to develop a black personality without feeling that a wedge is being driven between the family and the child ; does the family expect the child to be a white person in a black skin ? |
| 27 | Without it they might have driven past the track and searched on fruitlessly . |
| 28 | Shelley did not confess that she had driven past the Casa Madrid . |
| 29 | And then we tumble into ( It 's A ) Dirty Job which despite the cliche title , rocks out passionately , driven like the opener One Man Show as much by the total harmony vocals as the constant runs of guitars . |
| 30 | Although I know little of Madrid , I do know that the ring road around it is best driven with the accelerator pedal through the floor , like all those maniacal Spanish drivers in front and behind you , the steering wheel gripped tightly , eyes shut and prayers in profusion to the Almighty for safe exit from the maelstrom . |