Example sentences of "have been driving " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 2 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 5 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 6 | For he is the kind of man who has been driving women round the bend for generations . |
| 7 | However , I am confident that the European Community will continue to progress in the direction in which it has been driving — and rightly so — for the benefit of all our citizens and citizens on the mainland of Europe . |
| 8 | Reubens Barrichello has been driving competitively since he was six . |
| 9 | Richard , who is unemployed , has been driving since he was 17 and said he had a clean licence . |
| 10 | Consumer spending has been driving the economy out of recession this year , but the recovery is patchy and the Chancellor will scrutinise the last detail of every economic statistic in the next month , before he decides whether he can risk raising taxes on November the Thirtieth . |
| 11 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So far , he 'd been driving in a one-car team and in that situation , there is no way of knowing who is quick . |
| 15 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 16 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 17 | She 'd been driving along the A420 Oxford to Swindon road at Pusey woods , when she was hit head-on by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 18 | He said he 'd been driving along Akers Way in Swindon at between 40 and 60 miles per hour , when he became aware of Shaun Gooch behind him . |
| 19 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 20 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 21 | If things had turned out differently I 'd been driving you down here . |
| 22 | The road was wet and your mother has suggested that your father may have been driving exceptionally fast . ’ |
| 23 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 24 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 25 | A furious magistrate told Terrance Long : ‘ You might as well have been driving a bomb ! ’ |
| 26 | Someone who 's not from the area could have been driving through and seen something . ’ |
| 27 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 28 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
| 29 | Altogether six vehicles were involved and police say some motorists may have been driving to close . |
| 30 | You could have been driving |