Example sentences of "driven [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Oh do n't get the wrong idea — I was n't driven on to the streets through grief , or nothing like that . |
| 2 | ‘ After I got knocked out how the hell did you stop us from being driven on to the rocks ? ’ |
| 3 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 4 | Orders were issued for the cattle and geese to be driven in from the commons , the gates to be shut , the walls and bastions manned and all preparations for siege put into immediate operation . |
| 5 | Down below , fires are being lit and the cattle are being driven gently into the enclosures of thorn bushes . |
| 6 | In large leks the satellites have little chance of mating as they are driven away by the residents . |
| 7 | Although he was driven away by the defenders of the city of St Stephen 's with derisive shouts of " We do not want this man to reign over us " , he was able to capture the castle of Aixe , which was so lightly garrisoned that it had clearly been abandoned by Henry and Richard . |
| 8 | Hastings converted beautifully from the right touchline and added the points when replacement loose forward Richard Webster was powerfully driven over between the posts in the final minute . |
| 9 | According to this analysis the existing municipal culture is one which stresses uniform provision , with little choice for the consumer and which has been driven largely by the demands of the producers . |
| 10 | If change comes ( and if it does , it will be mild ) it will be driven more by the problems with Tokyo than by the aspirations of Osaka . |
| 11 | He dealt quickly with the Romanian trip until that day when they had driven up into the mountains to visit Putna . |
| 12 | Exactly opposite Grace a heap of crates which had driven up through the bends and reaches , twenty miles from Gravesend , was at rest in the slack water , enchanted apparently , not moving an inch one way or the other . |
| 13 | He describes how Sonya is driven out onto the streets by her step-mother 's gibe — ‘ Why not ? |
| 14 | The time of Sigmar sees the Orcs and Goblins driven out of the lands west of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 15 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 16 | Christopher Addison was unpopular because of his advanced social policy and he was eventually driven out by the Unionists . |
| 17 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 18 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 19 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 20 | Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk . |
| 21 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
| 22 | Cars and lorries are taxed before they can be driven legally on the roads . |
| 23 | Finally , it is not certain whether the beach originated as a spit and extended south-east from West Bay , or whether it started as an offshore bar which has later been driven shorewards by the waves . |
| 24 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 25 | The colobus , driven forward between the blockers , is deceived into thinking that an avenue of escape lies ahead until suddenly the ambusher reveals himself . |
| 26 | One is that future change may be driven primarily by the firms , not by government . |