Example sentences of "[be] driven back to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 2 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 3 | ‘ Had a good day ? ’ asked Iris as she settled into the Golf to be driven back to the auberge at the end of the afternoon . |
| 4 | ‘ Cricket ’ , remarked Pelham Warner sternly , ‘ is not a circus , and it would be far better that it should be driven back to the village green … than yield a jot to the petulant demands of the spectator . ’ |
| 5 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 6 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 7 | Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk . |
| 8 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |