Example sentences of "driven back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 2 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk . |
| 5 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |