Example sentences of "back in the driving " in BNC.

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1 ’ She sat back in the driving seat , a neat , competent figure in a deep green spring suit as modest and suave as her own creamy countenance .
2 First , it is clear that putting the National Union of Public Employees , the National and Local Government Officers Association and the Confederation of Health Service Employees back in the driving seat will never solve the problem .
3 On the one hand , there is the threat to roll back the legislation of the last 12 years , to put the trade unions back in the driving seat and make strikes easier , longer , more frequent and more damaging than ever before .
4 She was back in the driving seat , back in control , and the relief of it washed over her like a warm , revitalising wave .
5 Back in the driving seat for the first time in 40 years the memories came flooding back .
6 ‘ The sort of people John Smith was winding up at the Trade Union Conference about a return to a Golden Age , when they were back in the driving seat and great rights for their members , and a friendly government again — some of those people are beginning to make noises .
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