Example sentences of "[pron] had been driving [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 3 | They had been driving through Wales , to the sea , and Carrie had turned off the main road into a narrow valley and said , this was where she and Uncle Nick had lived for a while in the war , would they like to stop the night and see ? |
| 4 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 5 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |
| 6 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been driving along the twisting mountain roads when he 'd crashed ; that much she knew . |