Example sentences of "drive [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 2 | I asked Stephen — one of the two hapless fathers and himself reduced to a mulberry-eyed basket case — if he still had enough marbles to drive me to the station at Orvieto . |
| 3 | Although people generally consider me to be a very tolerant person , my moody male boss at work is driving me to the end of my tether . |
| 4 | My mate who is driving me to the match tomorrow says he wants to go straight to the ground so I wo n't be able to get to the Adelphi . |
| 5 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 6 | She left the kitchen to dress while they lamented their miserable exis-tences , and more often than not , she came back from driving them to the bus stop to throw their breakfasts in the garbage . |
| 7 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 8 | The only exception to this rule was Uncle Jack , who clearly had his sights set on several more whiskies when Charlotte insisted , at Ursula 's request , on driving him to the station and seeing him aboard the London train . |
| 9 | The vagrant headbutted him , driving him to the ground . |
| 10 | Driving us to the wall |
| 11 | Irena drove me to the station , past the monastery that is now a military hospital , along the main road north where tanks rumble across at night . |
| 12 | He said as much when he got up and drove me to the airport . ’ |
| 13 | My little local survey drove me to the conclusion that the Woolwich , in fact , offers some of the lowest rates on the market . |
| 14 | The Crown claims that Gallen picked up the bombers in Donegal , drove them to the yard and returned an hour later to pick them up . |
| 15 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 16 | Discussing Mr Cottle as Stanley drove them to the auction , Emily said : ‘ He was here when Rose … ’ |
| 17 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 18 | Mann said it could be done and Denega drove him to the chapel to see ‘ if the small cracks in the facade could be enlarged ’ . |
| 19 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 20 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 21 | In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport . |
| 22 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 23 | His fear of death — the punishment for murder — drove him to the hiding-place of Jekyll 's body . |
| 24 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 25 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 26 | In fact Francis booked the holiday and drove her to the airport . |
| 27 | Mr and Mrs Brown , of Barton , gave a desk and an anonymous friend drove it to the hospice . |
| 28 | ‘ The two of you rolled it up planks on to the truck , roped it down and drove it to the site ; is that right ? ’ |
| 29 | He drove it to the coast . |
| 30 | My mum and dad drove us to the airport in the torrential rain and wind . |