Example sentences of "been driving [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise I 'd have been driving tonight |
| 2 | The road was wet and your mother has suggested that your father may have been driving exceptionally fast . ’ |
| 3 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 4 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |
| 5 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 6 | Reubens Barrichello has been driving competitively since he was six . |
| 7 | He had been driving tremendously . |
| 8 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 9 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 10 | driver of vehicle involved in collison with another vehicle exonerated for responsibility for subsequent events which occur because another driver has driven recklessly and which would not have occurred had that driver been driving merely negligently . |
| 11 | There would be no need to tell them she had been driving very fast . |
| 12 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 13 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 14 | He had been driving too fast , that was what the police had said , and she could believe it now — he always had , when he was down , sunk into that deep trough of depression that occasionally consumed him , so that he lost all self-belief , all self-esteem . |