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 I explained that Harry 's car had already been driven away .
4 But they might have remained as also-rans if the rhynchosaurs had not already been driven into extinction
5 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 .
6 Miss Wharton had already been driven back to Crowhurst Gardens by a WPC , there to be solaced no doubt with tea and sympathy .
7 Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle .
8 I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed .
9 The surveyors for the new tunnel reckoned that no tunnel except Brindley 's before it had ever been driven through such hard rock .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven .
15 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 .
16 The crop has simply been driven to less-policed regions .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 ‘ We have therefore been driven to the conclusion that the court has power to , and should , intervene , ’ he said .
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