Sentence examples for had been driven through from inspiring English sources

(Or, some say, an iron spike had been driven through his tongue).

Carver must have felt a stake had been driven through his heart.

Who else would not have batted an eye-lid to discover that a Mini had been driven through the hall's corridors Italian Job-style and parked next to his chair at high table?

The problem then was that some car rental customers, typically business travelers, were unexpectedly opening the mail at home one day to find a court summons for speeding issued by some barely recalled destination that had been driven through on a recent business trip.

The project had been "driven through" by Chief of Defence Materiel Bernard Gray "with very little support in MoD and the services", the peer said.

The car, which had been driven through a barrier by two men who then ran off, burst into flames when the device partially exploded.

"It's true that a stake has been driven through the heart of a lot of publishing and we will have to be digital wizards to survive, but if we are doing it right, we know our customers.

He has an unusual way of galloping: he carries his head low, and he spreads out his hind legs to such an extent that, one observer said later, a wheelbarrow might have been driven through them.

The slightly dazed, bewildered, bearded old saint in the loincloth looks around and up, a little taken aback at the sight of the heavy, brutish nail that has been driven through his clenched left palm.

It is thanks mainly to Mr Schäuble that the coalition's (still inadequate) reforms of health insurance, labour law, shop-opening hours and so on have been driven through parliament.Would more of the same be possible with a Social Democratic partner?

Of Tony Blair, Mr Hennessy remarks that his programme has been "driven through without regard for the niceties of traditional cabinet structures, the division of function between permanent officials and temporary special advisers, or any great sensitivity towards parliament".Some of this seems to matter from a constitutional point of view and some not.