Example sentences of "driven from their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one instance a gay couple were driven from their home in Clwyd and forced to change their names to avoid being shunned by neighbours . |
| 2 | The indigenous people who live in the forests all around the world have been murdered , terrorised and driven from their land by greedy developers . |
| 3 | They can not be driven from their burrows by conventional means . |
| 4 | In 1940 Scotland was ‘ invaded ’ by thousands of Polish soldiers , driven from their homeland by the German army . |
| 5 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 6 | In the first seven months of 1992 there were 233,000 requests for asylum in Germany ( primarily from Romania and former Yugoslavia , and excluding refugees driven from their homes by the fighting there ) . |