Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been driving [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There would be no need to tell them she had been driving very fast . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 5 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 6 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 7 | He had been driving tremendously . |
| 8 | 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 . |