Example sentences of "been driving [prep] " 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 | Apparently , Marr had been driving with his wife when he spun out of control and smashed into a brick wall . |
| 18 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |
| 19 | It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 23 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 24 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 25 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 28 | He had been driving along the twisting mountain roads when he 'd crashed ; that much she knew . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |