Sentence examples similar to had been driven before from inspiring English sources

Muslim terrorists had been driven by such beliefs before.

Alsop began sounding the alarm about Indochina in 1950, even before the French had been driven from their colony.

There then followed two layers of coarse, roughened mortar, the stability of which was often improved by large nails that had been driven into the joints of the wall before the work of laying started.

In 1942 the rails were taken up for war scrap and the golden spike drawn from where it had been driven 73 years before; the old railroad bed remains.

Sky News quoted an eyewitness as saying the car had been driven erratically before it collided with garbage bins and the driver ran off.

Drouet's corps had been driven back from the slopes before the British lines with severe casualties and the loss of 3,000 prisoners.

The night before I had been driven home by a red-headed engineer, whose super-skinny, yet muscular body supported a head with a beard so thick and unkempt, it look liked it had burst out of his chin.

The blockade proper was broken in January 1943, but it was another year before the Germans had been driven back from the outskirts.

He has obviously been tormenting Gruber daily for some time, determined to sweep away the illusions and evasions of this businessman, who bought the establishment after its previous owner, a Jew whom both of these men knew, had been driven out by the Nazis eight years before.

They wrote that such a species could have been driven to extinction before the arrival of Europeans.

And at the fourth, in Texas, a would-be builder has been driven to try something never done before in nuclear construction: finding a buyer for the electricity before the concrete is even poured.