Example sentences of "[vb past] driven him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself . |
| 2 | The desire to capture had driven him like a wild man through the school yard , up the sidewalk , everywhere . |
| 3 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 4 | When Biddy had driven him back into town she spent an hour with the others . |
| 5 | A flight of external stairs allowed him easy access to the bookroom , and there he must often have been found when the ‘ noise of Women & children ’ , which made study impossible , had driven him once again from Lime Street : it is probable that most of the poems associated with the cottage were at least partly written in the bookroom . |
| 6 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 7 | Friends insisted last night that reports of a bitter row over the Maastricht Treaty with senior ministers , or that the vicious attacks on him by the anti-European Tories had driven him out , were wrong . |
| 8 | Though he 'd dimly thought it was sentiment that had driven him back here , he saw now it was not . |
| 9 | He never spoke of the tragedy which had driven him into seclusion . |
| 10 | So far as the Galway schoolboy was concerned , he was not much preoccupied in future by the Sinn Fein enemy who had driven him out . |
| 11 | The unions had driven him to infidelity . |
| 12 | His natural , male hunger had driven him to reach out for her . |
| 13 | She had been swept along by Alain since her plane landed and now she was about to meet the woman whose glamour had brought her father to France , who had driven him to deserting his own wife and child . |
| 14 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 15 | Skye wanted to walk the streets where he had lived and see what had driven him . |
| 16 | And all to be set to her account , for she had driven him away ! |
| 17 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 18 | He was Thorfinn 's first cousin , and his very revolt against his heritage had driven him into the arms of Siward and Durham . |
| 19 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 20 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 21 | And yet , tonight , some demon that she did n't understand had driven him to an act she was sure he was now bitterly regretting . |
| 22 | THE PRINCE of Wales admitted yesterday that the designers of modern housing estates had driven him ‘ nearly bonkers ’ in the past 14 years . |
| 23 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 24 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |