Example sentences of "drive i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The week-long shower drives me up ladders |
| 2 | It 's very inconvenient , but when I 'm working , I have someone who drives me about . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why is it that when I do fall , it has to be for a termagant who drives me out of my head ? |
| 4 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 5 | I felt myself in suspension , waiting without fear for some impulse to drive me on . |
| 6 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 7 | This year alone — the sad one in which British rugby players are apparently rubbing their hands in greedy but pitful expectation — I 've relished long , doubtless tedious ( for them ) but totally gratis and generous interviews with the likes of Scudamore ( on his most precious mid-season afternoon off ) , Offiah , Gower , Gooch , Border , Simpson , Jacklin , Robson , the teenage millionaire Chang ; and even Mansell took a day off to drive me round and round Silverstone . |
| 8 | This year alone — the sad one in which British rugby players are apparently rubbing their hands in greedy but pitiful expectation — I 've relished long , doubtless tedious ( for them ) but totally gratis and generous interviews with the likes of Scudamore ( on his most precious mid-season afternoon off ) , Offiah , Gower , Gooch , Border , Simpson , Jacklin , Robson , the teenage millionaire Chang ; and even Mansell took a day off to drive me round and round Silverstone . |
| 9 | On arrival across the bridge from the car park , I was met by Miss Hilary Laidlaw-Thompson the very efficient PRO for the show , who had brought a golf buggy to drive me round . |
| 10 | God knows where M F I is in If I get him to drive me round now I 'll remember which way to go . |
| 11 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 12 | He would not be able to drive me around , not this time . |
| 13 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And he it was who summoned the Court sorcerers to drive me out . |
| 15 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 16 | ‘ I told myself it was because of the play , but deep down there was something driving me back to you . ’ |
| 17 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Dear God , Rory , ’ he murmured , ‘ you 're driving me out of my mind ! ’ |
| 19 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 20 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 21 | It was my desire to be active , to earn my way in life , which encouraged me into these new fields , that is it was a positive impulse which drove me on . |
| 22 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 23 | ‘ Don Marco drove me over so I could telephone my ‘ Jottings ’ and the house was crawling with carabinieri . |
| 24 | he drove me over |
| 25 | The aircraft was burning well and this , plus exploding ammunition , drove me out . |
| 26 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 27 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 28 | He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope . |
| 29 | Then I got back my artillery , and the subdued Jackson drove me back to town . |
| 30 | He drove me back against the wall , gave me a deep cut in the arm , and began to smile . |