Example sentences of "be driving 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 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 . ’
20 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 .
21 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 …
22 You could drink now be driving for hours .
23 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 .
24 In USAC and F5000 , Mario was driving for the Vel 's Parnelli Jones team .
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