Example sentences of "driving [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of driving west , towards the expressway , he doubled back , crossed the bridge again , and cut down into Baker Park . |
| 2 | 11.30PM Driving west along the Santa Monica freeway — which divides north Los Angeles from south , the haves from the have-nots — to my left , flames everywhere illuminate the midnight sky . |
| 3 | And now , Newman thought , I 'm driving west of that estate . |
| 4 | Less than ten minutes later , Ellwood was driving west on the elevated section , carving a path through the laggards and deadheads . |
| 5 | Charlotte was in fact driving west along the M4 to South Wales , intent upon extracting from Frank Griffith some explanation of why he had misled Chief Inspector Golding . |
| 6 | Earlier studies , which equated the convective heat flux in the magma to the conductive heat flux through the solid overlying roof , indicate that the typical temperature differences driving convection in a magma chamber are 0.1–10°C . |
| 7 | The pressures driving research evaluation are , in the final analysis , political . |
| 8 | Driving south on the autobahn . |
| 9 | ‘ Tweed — with Paula Grey , I assume — at this moment is driving south along the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 10 | Driving south from Lochmaddy in 1979 brought instant joy . |
| 11 | If , let us suppose , you were driving south from Mâcon or Bourg-en-Bresse ( I would stay chez La Mere Blanc at Vonnas ) you could drive through La-Tour-du-Pin , Saint-Rambert d'Albon , Beaurepaire d'Isère , Beaumont-les-Valence , La Garde-Adhémar , St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux — the three castles which gave their name to the Tricastin district — then down to Suze-La-Rousse and the tiny village of Donzère and its great nearby dam which is as wondrous and absorbing a spectacle in its way as any of the great Roman glories of this province through which , they claim , Hannibal marched with his Carthaginians — and presumably his elephants — two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years ago . |
| 12 | Mark & I are driving south on Thursday , and as today 's an Edinburgh holiday , it will mean a 2–day working week for one ! |
| 13 | Mark and I are driving south this Thursday — only a 2–day working week for me ( whee ! ) . |
| 14 | Electricity was used to mill the flour , to bake the bread , for driving milking machines and then butter churns , to cook the beans in the factory , to mould the tin can , to make the paper for the label and to print it , and finally to heat the beans and make the toast . |
| 15 | Simon Burns , Conservative MP for Chelmsford , believes the law must be changed to stop youngsters driving superfast cars . |
| 16 | At the same time the imbalance between expenditure and revenue has resulted in high interest rates and the deficit has been an engine driving inflation — as the monetisation of government debt is one cause of excessive money supply growth . |
| 17 | Given America 's relatively mild recession , a vigorous expansion would have soon slammed into capacity constraints , driving inflation up sharply . |
| 18 | This tragic incident only underlines the dangers of young people illegally driving motor vehicles . ’ |
| 19 | Legal requirements may prevent a significant proportion of men returning to their original job , particularly if it involves driving motor vehicles . |
| 20 | A date of birth ( 25/7/86 ) associated with a driving licence number ( 78700 199 ) and an identity number ( 19873 ) could be used to give the information that a person whose identity number is 19873 possesses a driving licence , even though that person is under the minimum legal age for driving motor vehicles . |
| 21 | Each of the predictions of our aerodynamic analysis is therefore supported by the comparative data , enabling us to make two suggestions about the selective pressures driving tail elongation in birds . |
| 22 | The doorman at the Hilton saw them driving east early . |
| 23 | ‘ Tweed was seen driving east out of the city . |
| 24 | The first clash of arms in the campaign came on 23 August , when Salza 's Fourth Army , moving southward in expectation of cutting off the rear of the Austrians — who he deemed to be driving east — ran into Dankl 's advancing First Army at Krasnik . |
| 25 | The sun was full on her face , showing every stroke and grain of make-up , but at the same time driving expression from it . |
| 26 | ‘ A major pile-up on the E 35 near Freiburg … reported eight cars involved … heavy casualties … also reported a large refrigerated truck driving north along the southbound lane caused the latest holocaust … the truck driver believed to have died in the pile-up … more details in our next news bulletin … |
| 27 | She was driving north up Warwick Road . |
| 28 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 29 | This , obviously , is the place from which to inspect the western Pyrenees for a first time or , given the summary quality of the prospect , from which to take leave of them before driving north . |
| 30 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |