Example sentences of "driven to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was essentially to be a rotating mast mounted upon a tank , which could be driven to the centre of a large field , and with the mast lowered the aeroplane could be attached with a cable . |
| 2 | Entire families , forced off the land and driven to the cities , found themselves tied to a treadmill of existence that involved the entire family working , quite literally , night and day . |
| 3 | Small industries were destroyed and people driven to the cities where they were forced to switch from home-grown food to imported processed food . |
| 4 | In an age that sees all human behaviour and motive as finally hectic , and finds an art that says so rather glorious , the humanist is driven to the vegetable . ’ |
| 5 | When the lever is operated , the beer is driven to the bar by air pressure produced either by an electric air compressor or , more rarely , a water engine . |
| 6 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 7 | Are you a stereotypical middle-class undergraduate , driven to the university or polytechnic of your choice by your proud parent , complete with hi-fi , food hamper , alarm clock , extra socks and pleas to phone home regularly ? |
| 8 | From June onwards French farmers driven to the brink of bankruptcy by falling meat prices took violent action to try to stop imports of foreign lamb and beef , mainly from the United Kingdom but also from Belgium , the Netherlands and West Germany . |
| 9 | Mr Anderson said he had driven to the allotment after the woman suggested going somewhere quiet . |
| 10 | Driven to the edge of despair and traumatised by the prospect of a court-case that deeply injured his pride , he threw himself in front of an express train bound for Edinburgh . |
| 11 | They had driven to the edge of the city , into the brittle mauve of dusk , lights starting up in buildings everywhere as if some vast signal beacon were slowly igniting . |
| 12 | Mark was driven to the Gresham Hotel by the head of the development authority . |
| 13 | Only a last-minute collection of Mean Fiddler reserve funds , driven to the Finsbury Park site in a Securicor van , allegedly prevented the bands pulling on the Sunday . |
| 14 | Whitlock had driven to the airport a couple of hours before the delegation was due to arrive to ensure that all the security measures had been put into operation . |
| 15 | She might just as well have been driven to the airport by taxi , Jenna mourned . |
| 16 | Beattie and the other arrestee were driven to the army base on Church Road , Newtownabbey . |
| 17 | All at once , she felt driven to the floor with sheer misery . |
| 18 | You do read terrible stories in the papers every day of men who 've murdered their wives , get off even though they 've chopped their wives into a hundred bits , driven to the Lake District overnight , dumped the body and gone back |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On a few occasions , they had driven to the lane , made the call on the public phone , then hurried through the wood to watch the house . |
| 21 | Several of the Feltham type cars were in use to the end and were driven to the demolition site at Penhall Road , temporarily , while awaiting transport to Leeds . |
| 22 | He had been cautious of the 9pm appointment which led to his death and had driven to the village the night before to check the address . |
| 23 | So , Jess was chauffeur driven to The Belfry while his girlfriend went home with the very nice man from the AA in the recovery truck . |
| 24 | This detail in the story shows that the son was driven to the depths of despair . |
| 25 | Charles was driven to the restaurant in his dark green Bentley , while Diana arrived 10 minutes later at 1.50pm in her maroon Ford Scorpio . |
| 26 | Kingfishers driven to the coast in icy weather . |
| 27 | The vehicle was then driven to the flat of another UDA officer . |
| 28 | But on 19th April the wind began to blow very violently from the west , and we were driven to the east of the Molucca Islands . |
| 29 | As the rock shaft reached the Deep Level horizon , a link was driven to the East Shaft , and from then on , debris from the continued sinking and seepage needed only to be lifted to that height . |
| 30 | ‘ Just the act of having to leave their fiefdoms , get into a car , and be driven to the White House was a powerful reminder to every member of the cabinet that it was the president 's business they were about , not theirs or their department 's constituents . ’ |