Example sentences of "be drive for " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
8 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
9 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
10 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
11 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
12 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
13 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
14 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
15 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
16 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
17 | On the other side of the world another Banbury team are driving for victory in the world rally championship … |
18 | Erm , certainly when you 're , you 're very young , I mean that when you 're driving for attention . |
19 | It had been driven for more than thirty miles before being dumped in Chisledon near Swindon . |
20 | Eckmire , anxious to be seen to be supportive of the departing champion , added : ‘ Our sponsorship position has always assumed that Nigel would be driving for Williams next year and we echo the British public 's sentiments . ’ |
21 | Three times world champion Ayrton Senna will be driving for the Williams team next season … that 's official … and alongside him on the grid will be Damon Hill … that 's a relief . |
22 | The professionals will be driving for the world championship … a jackpot of a £100,000 … the amateurs the so called privateers are on the road for pride and pennies … |
23 | You could drink now be driving for hours . |
24 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
25 | Now watch this , as we go through the tack the sail is driving for most of the time just flapping briefly as the sail turns through the wind . |
26 | In USAC and F5000 , Mario was driving for the Vel 's Parnelli Jones team . |
27 | She was driven for 20 minutes to the Eastern docks , Dover . |
28 | When the poplar-tall Munton came on , his first ball was driven for four by Sohail who , 11 overs later , topped a hook off Lewis to reach 52 and take the total to 104 in only the 21st over . |
29 | ‘ Yes … then he was driven for , he estimates , about half an hour . |
30 | This can be illustrated by Lord Denning 's approach in Crowther v Shannon Motor Co [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 30 where a used Jaguar car with over 82,000 miles on the clock was driven for three weeks covering 2,300 miles before it broke down with engine seizure . |