Example sentences of "[adv] been drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been doing and er reckon he and er think I 'm and that was it so right Been driving since he was nineteen |
| 2 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 3 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 4 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 5 | Not been driving . |
| 6 | He 's been a good lad , he 's not been driving . |
| 7 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 8 | I explained that Harry 's car had already been driven away . |
| 9 | But they might have remained as also-rans if the rhynchosaurs had not already been driven into extinction |
| 10 | On the French side the short 3.2km stretch of service tunnel to the Coquelles terminal site has already been driven and work on the southern runnel tunnel is well advanced . |
| 11 | Miss Wharton had already been driven back to Crowhurst Gardens by a WPC , there to be solaced no doubt with tea and sympathy . |
| 12 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 13 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 14 | The surveyors for the new tunnel reckoned that no tunnel except Brindley 's before it had ever been driven through such hard rock . |
| 15 | It is , in fact , so easy a target that scholars reacting against it have constructed a revised view that has also been driven to excess . |
| 16 | To top it all her mother disowns her , so she is left to wander the streets , when she meets Matthews ( Martin Donovan ) , who has also been driven from his home . |
| 17 | One official wrote that the missing cattle ‘ have probably been driven off some distance by some of the bolder spirits of the village , and hired out for the season to some not over-scrupulous cultivator , with instructions to let them go loose when done with . |
| 18 | In the end , Mungo reasoned that the old man had probably been driving along , had somehow caught a glimpse of him , and had taken a short cut from the road . |
| 19 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 20 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 21 | The crop has simply been driven to less-policed regions . |
| 22 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 23 | Gullible had n't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison . |
| 24 | Evidence that long tails impose viability costs is very limited , yet without this it remains possible that tail elongation has sometimes been driven by natural selection , perhaps because it improves aerodynamic efficiency , manoeuvrability or stability . |
| 25 | Ariel starts across the clearing ; the trees and undergrowth , the tangle of roots and flowers have been razed , she must trudge across open ground to reach the sea , which is her aim ; she will walk out on the west side of the settlement 's boundaries , where the stockade has not yet been driven into the beach , past the rinsing and brewing pools which have already come to look neglected , the waterline slimy with weed , the flies hatching on the surface . |
| 26 | She 'd never been driven that fast before , never experienced the sheer exhilaration and heart-stopping fear that merged into one as the F40 powered on the knife edge of its optimum limits . |
| 27 | ‘ We have therefore been driven to the conclusion that the court has power to , and should , intervene , ’ he said . |