Example sentences of "was drive the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their aim was to drive the majority out of their homeland . |
| 2 | ‘ Jesus Christ ! ’ remarked the Sergeant , who was driving the jeep , ‘ Just our bloody luck . ’ |
| 3 | Her father was driving the car in which Danielle died and Christina was badly injured . |
| 4 | She said he was driving the car into which she was dragged after being grabbed from behind . |
| 5 | Freelancer Tihomir Tunukovic , 25 , a Croatian known as ‘ Tuna ’ , was driving the BBC armoured vehicle in a convoy when it was attacked near Travnik as fierce fighting shattered the start of a UN-brokered ‘ Week of Tranquillity ’ . |
| 6 | John Snowden , 50 , from Yorkshire , who was driving the Seddon Atkinson grain lorry , suffered head and arm injuries and had to be freed by firemen . |
| 7 | In southern and eastern countries a high rural birth rate and pressure on land was driving the masses either to the towns or abroad , although in 1880 legal restraints still hampered the Russian who wished to leave his village . |
| 8 | At the same time , the British 14th Army was driving the enemy back in Burma , and in June 144 the Americans managed to establish air bases on the Chinese mainland from which Japan itself could be raided . |
| 9 | The business was not driving the organization ; instead , the organization was driving the business . |
| 10 | So whoever it was driving the silent car must have seen them before twisting the wheel , reversing against the dry grass and brambles , and driving away as quietly towards the castle and the village . |
| 11 | She pressed down harder on the gas pedal , coaxing more speed from the car , trying to put more distance between herself and the maniac in the Audi , but whoever was driving the pursuing car had no intention of letting her get away . |
| 12 | Whoever was driving the car had been trying to kill her , it was as simple as that . |
| 13 | Sam 's brother , Neddy , incurred his wrath one day as he was driving the birds down towards the guns . |
| 14 | ‘ Dad was driving the van . |
| 15 | A watery sun had come through , and wind was driving the mist away . |
| 16 | ‘ The man who was driving the van got hit on the head . |
| 17 | She wanted to warn herself , who was driving the car without a care in the world , but she could n't get through . |
| 18 | Films were recorded while either the experimenter or an assistant was driving the Vauxhall Astra used in Study 1 . |
| 19 | ‘ I know , I was driving the both of you , ’ quipped Bunny , doing a quick Groucho Marx walk around the bed . |
| 20 | The courts have stated that the driver who was driving the vehicle with the consent of the owner does not become guilty of s.12 if he makes a reasonable deviation , e.g. to go to the toilet . |
| 21 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 22 | Police are now waiting to interview the 25 year old man who was driving the stolen car . |
| 23 | Michael Smith was driving the quad bike which ran down a hunt saboteur . |
| 24 | The other driver named — Leslie Flowerday — was driving the van which crashed into the back of Graham Branch . |
| 25 | A man aged twenty who was driving the car has been arrested and charged with the new offence of aggravated vehicle taking . |
| 26 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 27 | Train driver Graham Lumsden , of Duke Street , Hartlepool , said he was driving the train from Port Clarence to Thornaby and was approaching the North Shore signal box , about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Stockton station , when he saw a dark-haired male dash out from some bushes and place his head on the line . |
| 28 | Neil Butterfield was driving the roadsweeper along the A66 towards Scotch Corner when he overtook a pick-up van towing a trailer , Richmond magistrates were told . |
| 29 | It was the chap who was driving the combine . |
| 30 | being of course , is first of all find your home and while he was n't in a home he was driving the neighbours mad because he 's beginning to get confused and wander about and maintain that he has n't had his dinner when two people have already taken him in lunch , you know and the other problem is erm er er having found him a very nice home , he did n't want to go ! |