Example sentences of "been driving " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 2 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 3 | The road was wet and your mother has suggested that your father may have been driving exceptionally fast . ’ |
| 4 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 5 | How long had I been driving about ? |
| 6 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 7 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |
| 8 | And ever since then , more or less , I 've been driving . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have been driving the best of the best-selling model , the X2 1.5 hatchback , updated at the last Motor Show . |
| 11 | In the end , Mungo reasoned that the old man had probably been driving along , had somehow caught a glimpse of him , and had taken a short cut from the road . |
| 12 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 13 | Apparently , Marr had been driving with his wife when he spun out of control and smashed into a brick wall . |
| 14 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |
| 15 | On the facts before it , which concerned a death from a lorry shedding its load , the court held that the police were wrong to arrest for manslaughter the person whom they thought had been driving the truck : there was a wide gap between a suspicion that somebody was driving a truck , and a suspicion that they were driving it recklessly . |
| 16 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julie continued , ‘ I have been driving Aunt Polly 's Chevvy for absolutely ages in the States . ’ |
| 19 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 20 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 21 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 22 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 23 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 24 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 25 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 26 | No , he 's more likely to have been driving the Custom Shop totally insane for about two years straight , telephoning at obscure hours to tell them about his change of heart concerning the exact height of the fret-wire . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 29 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 30 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |