Example sentences of "drive [pers pn] [adv prt] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 2 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 3 | She had wanted to get back to her hotel and away from him but , first , he had insisted on driving her out into the wilderness , and now he had marooned them . |
| 4 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 5 | Early on the morning of the evacuation the families were preparing to embark when , in full sight of the military escort , gunmen surrounded the plane , forced the 11 men into a truck at gunpoint , and drove them off into the bush . |
| 6 | And this spirit continues with Jesus thereafter , it descended on him at baptism , it drove him out into the wilderness to be tempted and so on . |
| 7 | Holding her notes like a fan , she walked slowly out into the open , but the heavy heat from the leaden sky soon drove her back into the shade . |
| 8 | All magicians can be tested by laughter because corruption can not stand mockery ; and when his daughter laughed at him he drove her out into the wilderness , and she lived in the wilderness with the wild beasts and angels ministered to her . |
| 9 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |