Example sentences of "[prep] driving " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not worth driving yourself to the major airports in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The the thing is Yeah , I mean anything Rather than travelling , telephone , because you have to run up an awful lot of telephone calls before it 's worth driving over and doing it |
| 3 | For example , if you wanted to ’ bag up ’ with barbel a trip to the Severn may be in order , but if you wanted a ten pounder then it 's worth driving to one of the hot southern rivers like the Hampshire Avon , Bristol Avon or Kennet . |
| 4 | THE commonly-cited reason for opposing a charge for driving on particular urban roads is that it is a further restriction on those who have sufficient constraints already , what with parking meters , wheel-clamping and towing-away . |
| 5 | I spect they use it for driving their vans through . |
| 6 | He was arrested and booked into the city jail for driving while intoxicated . |
| 7 | Life went on that way until 1986 , when he moved to New Orleans , where he first received notice for being arrested twice in six months for driving while intoxicated . |
| 8 | The youngest Best Actress was the first , Janet Gaynor , at twenty-two ; the oldest was the last , Jessica Tandy , at eighty ( for Driving Miss Daisy ) . |
| 9 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 10 | Mademosielle Sagan was celebrated for the variety of her partners and for driving fast sports cars in bare feet as an example of the free life . |
| 11 | All around lay old and rusting tools and equipment , but among the junk I found almost at once two perfect aids : a tyre lever and a heavy mallet for driving in mooring pegs . |
| 12 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 13 | Screwdrivers : For driving the screws , you need a screwdriver . |
| 14 | You can probably get by with just two flat-bladed screwdrivers of different sizes for driving slotted screws , plus one cross-point driver for cross-head screws ( Pozidriv and Supadriv are the commonest types ; a No 2 size screwdriver will drive the most widely-used screw sizes ) . |
| 15 | For joining wood : Talking of hammers , it 's worth adding a small pin hammer to your tool kit , for driving small nails , glazing sprigs and the like . |
| 16 | There is a large , narrow belt wheel on the front wall , used on occasions for driving such things as an apple crusher at cider-making time . |
| 17 | Instead , she suggests introducing devices such as tolls for driving in specific , badly congested areas or for driving at particular times , such as rush hours . |
| 18 | Instead , she suggests introducing devices such as tolls for driving in specific , badly congested areas or for driving at particular times , such as rush hours . |
| 19 | There had been an inquest and the coroner had dwelt with what the family considered unnecessary emphasis on the theft of the car and the woman 's motives for driving recklessly about the countryside at the dead of night . |
| 20 | Polynesian holy water , used for purification and sanctification , for driving away demons and diseases , was simply sea water , as saturated with divinity as with salt . |
| 21 | Electricity was used to mill the flour , to bake the bread , for driving milking machines and then butter churns , to cook the beans in the factory , to mould the tin can , to make the paper for the label and to print it , and finally to heat the beans and make the toast . |
| 22 | In 1969 he was fined £25 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and was disqualified for driving for a year for failing to give police a blood or urine sample . |
| 23 | I said , ‘ I 've got to summons you for driving amongst children . ’ |
| 24 | unc diameter drift pins , turned to close tolerances to fit snugly into the jig drilled holes and having a head at one end and the other end tapered , for driving . |
| 25 | Bill gave up his job of 20 years as a tea taster and blender , exchanging the daily ‘ trundling up to London in a bowler hat for driving about 1,000 miles each week looking for antiques with Angela ’ . |
| 26 | The main route , travelling in an anti-clockwise direction , covers approximately 40 miles , so allow an hour or so for driving and as long as you like for stops ! |
| 27 | Now is that fair ? ’ ) ; three months chokey for driving while disqualified ; held by police following early morning disturbance outside Ms Tait 's flat etc , etc ad nauseam … |
| 28 | To his mind the central tenet of the game — that you will be rewarded for driving forward and making ground — has been abandoned . |
| 29 | There will no longer be the same opportunity for driving a maul , so why bother to get in there ? |
| 30 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |