Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be driving [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 2 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 13 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 18 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 19 | So far , he 'd been driving in a one-car team and in that situation , there is no way of knowing who is quick . |
| 20 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 21 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 22 | He had been driving along the twisting mountain roads when he 'd crashed ; that much she knew . |
| 23 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |