Example sentences of "driving [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley stopped to assess the chances of driving on . |
| 2 | My driving on was not a blind impulse , for I had reasons to stop with which I would have justified myself had I done so , but I discounted them in favour of other reasons for continuing . |
| 3 | Driving on , he told Paula that Harry Butler was on the way , that he 'd given a brief description of Evelyn so Butler would recognize her , plus her address . |
| 4 | I 'm driving on to the train 's roar beat , |
| 5 | blank , faceless , blindly staring ; driving on |
| 6 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't put yourself about , ’ Benedict said unconcernedly , driving on , but slowing his horses . |
| 8 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 9 | I 'm very pleased that not a single motorist follows his advice , since if they did the old Hebridean tradition of driving on to the moors would spread to the mainland . |
| 10 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 11 | it look just like a ski resort all the bright jackets and the woolly hats and it was lovely , I mean they made it into , into an absolute skating ring for driving on |
| 12 | A man driving down a country road is stopped , and a spike is driven into his head . |
| 13 | ‘ Gee , ’ says the inexperienced Masters contestant , ‘ I only won the Paduca Classic and here I am driving down Magnolia Drive to the Masters . |
| 14 | Returning from a London party , he was driving down Radnor Walk when he saw the unmarked vans parked by the kerb in front of Tweed 's terrace house . |
| 15 | Now driving down the E 35 from Offenburg . |
| 16 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 17 | The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper could n't keep the glass free of it . |
| 18 | Driving down in a Glory ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm driving down towards the river , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Over-capacity in some sectors is still driving down selling prices . |
| 21 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 22 | We were driving down to Zagora . |
| 23 | They blame the imports for driving down prices on their own catches . |
| 24 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 25 | They make the kind of music which makes sense if you 're driving down 200 miles of American highway , which does n't mean it 's particularly good , as anything loud and vaguely melodic would sound great speeding along Route 66 . |
| 26 | This was largely done by driving down the case-fatality rate ( as was done also with diphtheria ) but by cutting the prevalence of diseases even greater successes were won . |
| 27 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | I suppose it depended on whether you went for the older man , which , speaking for herself , Rosie did n't and never had done and was , anyway , leaving to stay with the Spratlings at Porto Ercole and then , perhaps , driving down to Rome to see poor old Jack Gerontius , who had n't long to go , and after that , who knew ? |
| 29 | The rain was driving down with great force , swamping the dry ground , and within moments her hair was plastered flat against her cheeks . |
| 30 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |