Example sentences of "[been] driven [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 3 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 6 | On Jan. 25 the government claimed that the rebels had suffered many casualties and had been driven back over the border into Uganda . |
| 7 | Nothing could have been more controlled or correct , as if he did not know that his father had been driven out of the principality like a half-drowned rat , or a hound caught in a thunderstorm , and running for shelter with its tail between its legs . |
| 8 | Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here . |
| 9 | And Sarrance is the setting in which her group of competing story-tellers gather , after they have been driven out of the spa of Cauterets , up in the mountains , by bad weather . |
| 10 | As a result they had been driven out of the city by Richard 's agents and the cathedral was closed for twenty-one months . |
| 11 | Alison , 26 , who has two children — Tracey , 3 , and Antony , 15 months — said : ‘ We have been driven out of the house by this evil spirit . |
| 12 | Then the farmer admitted that there had been many applicants for the job already , but each had been driven out of the stall by the horse . |
| 13 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 14 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |