Example sentences of "was drive from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his arrival back from Siwa , Stirling was driving from Alexandria to Cairo when he was involved in a serious road accident . |
| 2 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 3 | What brought all this on was driving from Berlin to Leipzig and back . |
| 4 | He combed the records and learnt that two of Suite 1723 's former occupants had died in office and another ( like Orton , a Utah man ) was driven from Washington by scandal . |
| 5 | Later in the Pisan Cantos ( 80/515:550 ) we read of ‘ that Christmas at Maurie Hewlett 's ’ — Christmas 1911 in Hewlett 's fifteenth-century house outside Salisbury — to which Pound was driven from Southampton across a tract of Hardy 's Wessex which his imagination peopled with phantoms out of Under the Greenwood Tree . |
| 6 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 7 | As always , he was driven from St-Cloud in his black Rolls Royce Phantom ; as always , when his driver held back the door , and he climbed out , he looked up at Lassalle 's building , that tall dark tower , and then passed inside . |
| 8 | This evidence sheds valuable light , therefore , not only on the first recorded Northumbrian royal overtures to the Frankish court but also on the disturbed state of the kingdom on the eve of Alhred 's expulsion in 774 when he was driven from York at Easter ( ASC D , s.a. 774 ) into exile among the Picts . |