Example sentences of "had been driving [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy .
2 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 .
3 It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly .
4 He had been driving along the twisting mountain roads when he 'd crashed ; that much she knew .
5 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 .
6 The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars .
7 The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies .
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