Example sentences of "driving for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A motorist who was five times over the drink-drive limit , twice within 24 hours , was put on probation for two years , and banned from driving for three years by magistrates at Exeter . |
| 2 | He was sentenced to 18 months ' youth custody and was banned from driving for six years . |
| 3 | Jeremy Smith , 26 , unemployed , of Leicester , was put on probation yesterday and banned from driving for 30 years after being convicted of his eighth drink-driving offence .. |
| 4 | A surgeon banned from driving for 14 days and fined £105 for speeding at 104mph on his way to hospital to operate is to appeal to the Crown Court . |
| 5 | With regard to drinking and driving for example : |
| 6 | The rain struck him across the face like a whiplash as he fought to keep the bike upright and driving for the protection of the leeward bank . |
| 7 | Luckily for the future of the SAS , Stirling himself escaped with a damaged wrist — which had the virtue of stopping him from driving for while . |
| 8 | The magistrates fined her £130 and disqualified her from driving for 19 months . |
| 9 | The UK government is concerned about the number of deaths caused by careless driving while unfit because of excessive alcohol consumption , and a recent White Paper , The Road User and the Law , recommends among other things , that this offence should carry obligatory disqualification from driving for at least 2 years , an unlimited fine and a maximum penalty of 5 years ' imprisonment ( Lowry , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | In 1969 he was fined £25 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and was disqualified for driving for a year for failing to give police a blood or urine sample . |
| 11 | He was well over the limit and was banned from driving for a year . |
| 12 | In addition to the two-year probation order , Ironside was banned from driving for a further two years . |
| 13 | After driving for about ten minutes Jed looked away to the right . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After all , he could n't go on driving for ever , he 'd just drive straight into another ocean , and that was what he was trying to get away from , was n't it , the ocean ? |
| 17 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 18 | Harris , who also picked up a speeding conviction last year , was disqualified from driving for 21 days and fined £100 . |
| 19 | He is already banned from driving for 30 years . |
| 20 | The 43-year-old , of Old Marston , Oxon , was yesterday banned from driving for six months and fined £350 by Witney magistrates . |
| 21 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
| 22 | She was fined £3,900 , ordered to forfeit her Ford Fiesta car , worth £800 , and banned from driving for three years . |
| 23 | A FRENCH trucker was banned from driving for two years yesterday after after he was caught nearly four times over the drink drive limit . |
| 24 | He was banned from driving for a year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The process of driving for wealth through the construction of hierarchies of growth in a relatively stagnant economy is inherently destructive . ’ |
| 27 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 28 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 29 | In USAC and F5000 , Mario was driving for the Vel 's Parnelli Jones team . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the court decided that imprisonment would be in neither Howard 's nor the public 's interests , so he was fined £50 , ordered to pay £30 costs and disqualified from driving for eight years . |