Example sentences of "have been driving " in BNC.
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| 31 | yeah but if she 'd of had the accident they could of said no , she 's got a C D ten on her driving licence , she should n't have been driving it ! |
| 32 | Otherwise I 'd have been driving tonight |
| 33 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 34 | No , he 's more likely to have been driving the Custom Shop totally insane for about two years straight , telephoning at obscure hours to tell them about his change of heart concerning the exact height of the fret-wire . |
| 35 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 36 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 37 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 38 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |
| 41 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 42 | Apparently , Marr had been driving with his wife when he spun out of control and smashed into a brick wall . |
| 43 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |
| 44 | On the facts before it , which concerned a death from a lorry shedding its load , the court held that the police were wrong to arrest for manslaughter the person whom they thought had been driving the truck : there was a wide gap between a suspicion that somebody was driving a truck , and a suspicion that they were driving it recklessly . |
| 45 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 46 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 49 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 50 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 51 | There would be no need to tell them she had been driving very fast . |
| 52 | 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 ? |
| 53 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Even though he was still only sixteen , Wayne had been driving the yard 's vehicles around the quiet back roads in the off-season for the past two years . |
| 56 | Bruneau had been driving me too hard . |
| 57 | Though she had no car of her own just now , Charlotte had been driving , and driving well , for more than four years . |
| 58 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 59 | They had already started to look at houses — not any close inspection , just murmured approval as they had been driving , Glyn 's comments warming her . |
| 60 | 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 . |