Example sentences of "drove home the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the 1947 crisis drove home the extent of Britain 's overseas payments difficulties Bevin and the Chiefs of Staff were able to defend their programmes quite successfully . |
| 2 | The 1935 General Election drove home the fact of their sad decline , for only 21 Liberals won seats in 1935 . |
| 3 | By highlighting the threat to the constitution from Labour and Liberal plans for a Scottish Parliament and the proportional representation system by which its members would be elected , he consistently and robustly drove home the message that the Tories alone stood as the party of Union , of collective strength in negotations abroad and strong government at home . |
| 4 | Now , as if suddenly aware of the morning chill , he closed the top half of the door , drove home the bolt , then came and stretched himself out in the armchair opposite her . |
| 5 | So , to prevent the disastrous consequences he foresaw , Moses drove home the lesson : ‘ Remember ! ’ |
| 6 | It was the Press , too , which really drove home the scandal of the three executives from the Matrix Churchill company who were threatened with jail for supplying armaments to Saddam Hussein . |
| 7 | Between late July and early October 1936 the rebels drove home the advantage given them by Franco 's agreements with Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 8 | His warning drove home the dangers the bloodletting posed to the plan he drafted with U.S. statesman Cyrus Vance to divide Bosnia into ten ethnically based provinces under a weak central government . |
| 9 | Charming she thought , feeling acutely humiliated , especially as it drove home the fact that she 'd made little or no impact upon this man . |
| 10 | They drove home the Derry way , and as usual it set Mallachy off . |