I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a burning/driving ambition (= a very strong ambition )
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She had a burning ambition to become a racing car driver.
a car drives off/away
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The police car drove off at top speed.
a CD drive (= the place on a computer where you put in a CD-ROM )
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He popped the CD in the CD drive.
a driving ban British English
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He was given a three-year driving ban and a fine.
a driving licence British English , a driver's license American English
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80 percent of 18 year olds had a driver’s license.
a driving test
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A driving test can be a nerve-racking experience.
a driving/parking/traffic offence
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Speeding is the most common traffic offence.
a driving/swimming etc lesson
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Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.
a petition drive American English (= an attempt to get a lot of people to sign a petition )
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More than 20,000 signatures were gathered by the petition drive.
a short walk/flight/drive
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It’s a short drive to the airport.
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The hotel is only a short walk from the beach.
an hour’s walk/drive etc
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It’s about an hour’s drive away.
autograph driving
be forced/driven into exile
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Many of his political opponents have been forced into exile.
disk drive
disqualified from driving
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He was disqualified from driving .
drink and drive
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Don’t drink and drive .
drive a car
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In England you can learn to drive a car when you are 17.
drive on/along/down the motorway
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He was driving along the motorway at a steady sixty miles an hour.
drive sb to ruin (= cause ruin for sb )
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Farmers told how foot-and-mouth disease was driving them to ruin.
drive shaft
Drive...stakes into the ground
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Drive two stakes into the ground about three feet apart.
drive...to despair
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The noise from the neighbours used to drive him to despair .
driving licence
driving rain (= heavy rain that is falling fast or being blown along )
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They struggled to walk against driving rain.
driving range
driving school
driving snow (= falling fast )
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We walked home through driving snow.
driving test
driving...crazy (= really annoying me )
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Turn that music down. It’s driving me crazy !
driving...mad
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He’s been driving me mad !
driving...nuts (= annoying me very much )
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Turn that radio off. It’s driving me nuts .
driving...up the wall (= making me annoyed )
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That noise is driving me up the wall .
drunk driving
flash drive
four-wheel drive
hard drive
left-hand drive
long journey/walk/flight/drive etc (= a journey etc over a large distance that takes a lot of time )
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It’s a long walk to the shops from here.
motorway driving
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Is motorway driving included in the driving test?
pen drive
reckless driving
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He was accused of causing death by reckless driving .
right-hand drive
sex drive
test drive
USB drive
within travelling/commuting/driving distance of sth (= near enough to make travel to or from a place possible )
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The job was not within travelling distance of my home.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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I am driving along a narrow main road, used by fast-moving traffic, with my children in the back seat.
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The kid drove along through the green hills of California without saying a word.
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One would find oneself driving along in a pall of black poison.
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Los Angeles wants music to drive along to because commutes can be so long.
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Tony was humming to himself as he drove along but Freddie sat silent, sulking over the raid that never was.
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But of course they lived inside history, and events were being driven along by larger historical forces.
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Meanwhile, Eric had turned left and pulled away, driving along the High Street towards the top end of the town.
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I drive along the track, my heart full.
around
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After driving around for some time with no success I decided that I must get on my way.
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Often, as I drove around , I felt as if I were in an enormous time park.
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It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water.
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She got back in the car and drove around to the back where the room was assigned.
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A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie.
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Mayor, why don't you drive around and get a reality check?
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They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about.
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But parents will still drive around with children in the front seat, either with air bags, or no seat belts.
away
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As the car drove away Holly's smile faded.
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As they drove away Fong looked back.
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To impress and drive away lesser males, the harem bull develops a darker coat and a swollen neck.
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I drove away to the sound of singing.
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They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi.
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Then the cameras were switched off, police cars drove away , and the doors to the hospital closed behind them.
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A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly, driving away the last vestiges of fear.
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Zanger said he retorted that he needed his glasses to drive away .
back
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As they drove back from a barbecue the bee stung Rod's arm.
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He drove back to Acra and slept the sleep of a confused man.
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They drove back to Monte Samana in silence, and Miguel stopped near the medical centre.
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Then we got into the van and drove back to town.
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This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt.
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If Sien went back with them, she would be driven back to her old life in no time.
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Over it, water cascaded into a half-million-gallon pool, then was driven back to the top by steam-powered pumps.
by
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As we drive by , a tiny pick-up truck approaches with two more.
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A convertible drove by , but it was white and a different make.
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He heard a car drive by .
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It was against the law to be moving when the Prime Minister drove by .
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Creed drove by , slowing down and scrutinising the open doorway before finding somewhere to park.
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They drove by again and then again, each time slower and more menacingly.
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Once in a while some one drove by down the dirt road along the shore.
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I look at the couple as I drive by .
down
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As a result of these expectations, funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets, thereby driving down long-term interest rates.
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Marshall, however, preferred to drive down to the office himself.
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So he had driven down from Edinburgh to intercept the train.
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Early one spring I drove down to South Carolina to visit some friends.
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Later in the day, after their shopping expedition, Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks.
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They disappeared July 15 after driving down to Tijuana to attend cockfights at the annual Tijuana Fair.
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I drove down the High Street.
home
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They had driven home arguing about which night was Midsummer night.
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Three outs, and everyone drives home .
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She drove home through further rain.
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We dragged ourselves to our cars and drove home .
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I required a longer rest; and could I be driven home by some one, as I felt so tired?
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They drove home in almost complete silence.
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In this self-righteous mood he drove home .
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These sessions had the desired effect of driving home the urgent need for change.
off
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Within two minutes the automatic aerial was retracted and the Volkswagen drove off .
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Then I drove off , with my clothes and without further explanation, to my parents' house.
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Then Hank came out and drove off , and he cursed him quietly.
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Phagu drove off to scout another place; the rest of us packed up and walked an extra six miles.
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Then he drove off , the wrong way down the dual carriageway, said Jane Cockburn, prosecuting.
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They get into the car and drive off , but soon they come to a police roadblock.
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The car drove off at speed, the tyres screeching, and disappeared into the endless bricks of suburbia.
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Then he got into his white Olds and drove off to clear his head.
on
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She accelerated hastily, and drove on .
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The girl had insisted on driving her all the way home.
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Stanley stopped to assess the chances of driving on .
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After a tiny hesitation the man laughs back, and we drive on through the site.
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At the last moment she stopped the manoeuvre and drove on instead.
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When he sees the ominous Eric Roberts with his thumb out, Henriksen drives on by.
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The driver banged on his horn but Gregson drove on at speed, unconcerned by the accident he'd almost caused.
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We headed toward this, our third storm, by driving on a two-lane road surrounded by green prairie.
out
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To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers.
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There seems to be no good history antidote strong enough to drive out this bad and damaging chapter of history.
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Attacked and driven out by men, Giant Wolves have allied with Goblin tribes.
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Mattresses have been driven out and dumped in fields, sticks of broken furniture poke out of ditches and broken-backed fences contain nothing.
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Most of the downtown bread stores have been driven out of business by stagflation.
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She refused to be driven out , as she put it.
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The hundreds of worker bees who were also driven out got the minimum.
over
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Then they were driving over rough ground, loose stones popping under the tyres.
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Sometimes she drove over , even though she lived only two houses down.
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When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner.
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Because I am interested in ruins, I decided to drive over to the town site.
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Although the vast majority are hardened by their loss, others have been driven over the edge of madness.
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I drove over to the house.
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Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea.
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We just bundled her up and drove over .
round
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Now Evans got back into his car and drove round to Connon's house.
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I wondered, driving round the utterly deserted town.
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He was driven round the wrong way in a car in heavy rain.
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On the other hand, driving round at night, in the pouring rain, didn't appeal either.
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It drove round the corner and came back.
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They drove round a corner and the next thing they heard was gunfire.
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It don't look too hard, driving round and round.
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We drove round in circles for an hour and now we're back in the Butcher Building.
through
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He drove through and they shut behind him.
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Angel and I just drove through .
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But having driven through this sleepy Cambridgeshire backwater this week, I sincerely hope they were ousted from office and then shot.
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Not close and overgrown, crowded with foliage, not leafy limbs pressing in on you as you drove through .
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I weighed in on Monday, got blood pressured, then drove through blinding rain into the Guildford one-way system.
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Finally, a sight appeared through driving rain that lifted our hearts.
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Subjects were able to recall many of the junctions they had driven through , though the quality of this recall was variable.
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In fact, it was the ogre who owned the land that the king had just driven through .
up
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It means you don't stick to your word and you do end up driving an MR2.
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Higher demand for credit will drive up interest rates, making it more profitable for banks to supply more credit.
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S blocked steel imports, which drove up the cost of automobiles and everything else made from steel.
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Home, she thought dismally as she drove up the gravelly drive.
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Labor shortages were not going to be driving up wages for a long time to come.
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The negotiations had driven up the share prices, which was wonderful.
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After an important doctor's appointment, he drove up to Camp Pendleton to have the deer put down.
■ NOUN
car
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With some difficulty he got the car to start and drove slowly along the middle of the road.
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A car has driven off the small bridge and is slowly sinking in the river.
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Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers.
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Together they all escaped into waiting cars and were driven to London.
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I climbed into my car and drove off.
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More than the car you drive , worry about the tires it rolls upon.
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That fall a government car drove up while I was outside playing.
mile
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Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers.
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Because Southern Californians drive nearly 100 million miles every day in their cars - carefree perhaps but not cost-free.
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Takes minutes to drive 6 miles into centre of Bideford due to endlessness of roads and imbecilic road signs.
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He had never raced on an oval nor ever driven more than 200 miles in a race.
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Unfortunately, we sailed straight into a terrible storm, which drove us many miles eastward.
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They then drove fifteen miles before dumping him on the Buckinghamshire border.
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If he'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past.
miles
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After the board meeting, they drove fifty miles south of Auckland to meet Forster for lunch.
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Can you imagine driving 49 miles on a good, paved road in California and not seeing another car?
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I drove for miles and found nothing.
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If my kids need a tonsillectomy, do I drive 100 miles ... to get a $ 60 discount?
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Because Southern Californians drive nearly 100 million miles every day in their cars - carefree perhaps but not cost-free.
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It was an unnecessary extravagance, since I would have to be driven a hundred miles back in a car.
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Takes minutes to drive 6 miles into centre of Bideford due to endlessness of roads and imbecilic road signs.
price
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As more assets are purchased, this will drive up their price .
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The company said aggressive pricing by Intel has driven down prices for so-called 486 chips.
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The herd moves into a market, driving up asset prices to absurd levels, then leaves when things look dicey.
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Tensions in the gulf drove prices at the time up to the present-day rate of $ 1. 46 per gallon.
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The negotiations had driven up the share prices , which was wonderful.
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And the shift from bonds to stocks would drive down the price of bonds and raise interest rates.
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Both sets of figures have been driven by the price of crude oil.
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Declining global production and rising demand drove prices higher.
road
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It will drive people on to the roads .
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For a while he drove the winding club roads , past the wrecked tennis courts, the empty swimming pool.
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It was, of course, laudable to clear the rookeries; essential to drive new roads through slum areas.
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When you drive in, the road narrows, the metal guard rail is replaced by a hand laid rock wall.
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I'd managed to drive over the terrible roads to a village or small town.
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We headed toward this, our third storm, by driving on a two-lane road surrounded by green prairie.
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Alternatively, it is claimed, such a system would be inequitable since poorer motorists would be driven off the roads .
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Nights we spent driving on the road .
town
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We drove out of town on the Dublin road, then swung up a lane, beside a Round Tower and monastic ruin.
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Let him put his suitcase in the trunk himself and then you drive him around town for a while.
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They would have been driven from the town and had to survive in unpopulated areas.
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Because I am interested in ruins, I decided to drive over to the town site.
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At just after eight last night he was being driven through the town centre.
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Instead I keep driving , get to town , time to kill, so I find a bartender to kill it.
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She rescues him, drives him out of town as dawn starts to break and leaves him in a wheatfield.
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Then we got into the van and drove back to town .
truck
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Though I might like to drive a truck one day.
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Bruce drove the truck behind us.
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The one Masklin had found in the Store, the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck .
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Not to mention three more years of driving a truck .
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You're way too smart to be driving a truck .
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Her husband drove a truck , ferrying cotton workers from the highlands down to the coast and back.
vehicle
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The petite blonde star refused to go in his car and drove her own vehicle to his central London offices.
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Gritz and his team immediately drove in a recreational vehicle to the gate at Justus Township, Smith said.
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A typical agreement lasts three years and a disabled person can have more than one person insured to drive the vehicle .
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Each morning at 7, Schweitzer physicians and fieldworkers roll into the school compound in a white four-wheel-drive vehicle .
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Only foremen will drive company vehicles from now on.
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Most of its sales are Jeep Cherokees, which is a right-hand-drive vehicle .
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They were later seen wearing ski masks and driving the vehicles across the Denes area.
wedge
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The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
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The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
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The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
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By criminalizing physician-assisted suicide, the Supreme Court has driven a criminal wedge between the dying and their doctors.
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They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer.
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The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
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Above all, it drove a wedge through the heart of the Conservative coalition.
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Considering the views of those proven achievers helps drive an even greater wedge between centralization and decentralization as a guiding organizational principle.
■ VERB
learn
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Denise says she is learning to drive .
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Grandma Shay also learned how to drive a car.
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Better than learning how to drive from your junior college coach.
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Martin learned to drive as his Skill project and improved on his swimming ability in the Physical Recreation section.
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However, if you listen to motivational and training cassettes while you are driving you will learn while you drive.
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We lived here for three years, and I learned to drive and to swim and to handle a boat.
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You know how I learned to drive ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be as pure as the driven snow
be driven/pushed from pillar to post
drive a wedge between sb
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Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.
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It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
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She'd driven a wedge between herself and Guy.
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Such opposition to bureaucratic intrusion drove a wedge between many working-class people and the Fabian socialists.
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The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
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The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
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The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
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The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
drive sb bonkers
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The noise from the train tracks used to drive us bonkers .
drive sb insane
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The noise from the construction project is driving us completely insane .
drive sb potty
drive sb round the bend
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Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend .
drive sb to distraction
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Mrs. Swanson was being driven to distraction by her mischievous son.
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And just like in the Kronenbourg ad she can't stop driving men to distraction .
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His constant invasion of her privacy was driving her to distraction .
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Or will his lack of ambition drive you to distraction ?
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They lived inside a person's body and wriggled about until their presence drove him to distraction .
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Zoe talks her dad into letting her have driving lessons but she and Janine drive Garry to distraction .
drive/strike a hard bargain
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Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
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It could also be that Reilly, who has never knowingly sold himself short, is driving a hard bargain.
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So he was right to drive a hard bargain.
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The farmer had grown used to billeting troops and drove a hard bargain.
driving ambition
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Talented but without driving ambition, Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson's disease.
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Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
driving force
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First, I would disagree that the Endangered Species Act is the driving force behind conservation decisions.
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For the lawyer and the judge, a driving force at all times has been the avalanche of precedents.
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Listening to the Finale in particular, I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance.
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The driving force of the rain precluded conversation, sealed each of us in with his own thoughts.
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The current history line is the driving force of the payroll and is subject to very high validation checks.
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This possessiveness can be a driving force behind each craftsman and his task.
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Was it feasible, was it remotely possible, that the mutation had some sort of driving force?
driving rain/snow
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He feels like a fool in his virtual reality goggles as he trudges through the driving rain to the parked aircraft.
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In the face of the hard, driving snow, the stage slowed.
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Inside, peace reigns, even in driving rain.
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The air was full of driving rain as Jack climbed the hill.
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The darkness was so complete that no one could have seen her through the driving rain and almost instantly the house disappeared.
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The somber job was made more difficult by driving snow and subfreezing temperatures.
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There was continuous driving rain, and a cold that numbed me.
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They carried parasols and held them against the driving snow as they minced along in three-inch clogs.
hit/drive/hammer etc sth home
in the driving seat
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Back in the driving seat for the first time in 40 years the memories came flooding back.
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Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch.
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It was clear that, in the early stages of embryo development, the cytoplasm is in the driving seat .
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Kev sat with eyes closed in the driving seat .
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Once Smith's penalty goal had cut the Cambridge lead to two points Oxford appeared to be in the driving seat .
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So long as the receiver is in the driving seat neither the owners nor the unsecured creditors can do much to remove him.
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What in the world would the company be like in a few years' time if such people were in the driving seat ?
needs must (when the devil drives)
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
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Little legs going like the clappers .
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Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
sales drive/campaign
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Both firms have announced small computers and plan big sales campaigns.
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Independent laboratory tests and a pilot sales campaign have confirmed that AirX works very successfully.
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The sales drive was interrupted by a legal hiccup.
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The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating, in which their major competitors were the gas boards.
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Valuable information such as company sales statistics or previous sales campaign studies can come from the client himself.
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
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But don't drive yourself into the ground .
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I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
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I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
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Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
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They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"How are you going to get there?" "I'm driving."
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"How do you get to work?" "I drive ."
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"What car do you drive ?" "A Fiat Brava."
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Drive carefully - the roads are very icy.
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Drive the nail into the wall at a downward angle.
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Driving a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool was one of the most dangerous stunts Crawford had to perform.
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At the trial, she claimed that years of abuse from her violent husband had driven her to kill him.
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Can you drive me to the airport next Friday?
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Gang activity has driven business away from downtown.
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Her mother's continual nagging drove her into running away from home.
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I'm learning to drive . In fact, I take my test next week.
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I learned how to drive when I was fifteen.
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Jeff drives a green Volvo.
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Jenny drove to the coast for the weekend.
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Many farmers claim that they have been driven to desperation by the latest blow to the industry.
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McGwire drove the ball into right field.
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My love of competition is what drives me.
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On our trip to Florida, I drove 300 miles in one day.
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She drove off without saying goodbye.
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She didn't really want to drive herself to the doctor, so I said I'd take her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He drove her home, leaving her down the block but watching her to make sure she got in okay.
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He said he would drive me home.
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It swirled and howled, driving the sleet and snow towards him alone.
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Several times they started to build a city, but they were always driven away by misfortunes or bad omens.
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The Protestant yeomanry still rode around the countryside intent on driving home the lessons of 1798: Rebellion will be punished!
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They completely failed and were driven to policies of austerity before they even got started.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
floppy
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Cleaning a floppy disk drive should be part of a regular maintenance procedure.
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The functions of memory, floppy drive and the hard disk are all explained.
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Apparently the machine's screen and the motherboard survived intact - but alas not the floppy drive .
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The hard and floppy drives are 3.5-inch affairs mounted on the side of the main drive cage.
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It has a floppy disk drive to load programmes, and a megabyte of memory to store them.
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The floppy drive supplied with the 320SLi is an external unit, which weighs about 10oz.
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Use disk head cleaning kits on floppy drives . 3.
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If both floppy drive lights are lit then one floppy connector is reversed.
hard
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You can specify any page you like, even one located on your own hard drive such as your Bookmark file.
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If you have an older machine, adding or replacing a hard drive can still be daunting.
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Who says that a removable hard drive deserves as much attention as battery life?
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Kuo said the virus attacks the spot where the layout of its hard drive is stored.
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But once hard drives broke the 100-megabyte barrier, that was no longer feasible.
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The hard disk drive is fast, too, with its own on-board cache.
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The other kind is disk storage, commonly on a hard drive or floppy disk.
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An unscrupulous programmer could write an ActiveX program designed to erase a hard drive or deposit a virus.
long
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Scottie loved travelling and behaved splendidly during the long drives and sailing periods.
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Road conditions were reasonably good up the long coastal drive north on National Route 3.
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Cattle were no longer taken on long drives , but were delivered by rail and cattle drives were then made illegal.
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The Chiefs led 7-0 when the Raiders began the second half with a long , promising drive .
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Then there is the travelling back and forth to shows, which can often entail a long drive .
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The 49ers answered both Baltimore touchdowns with long touchdown drives of their own following the kickoffs.
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I've got a long drive tomorrow.
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Glover thought his silent thoughts on Lucky as they made the long drive .
new
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Myth-3: New disk drive technology that doesn't improve seek time can be dismissed as ineffective.
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There was a new drive for the floppy disks that allowed each disk to store twice the information.
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All my shortcuts on the new drive refer to the C drive.
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Her new four-wheel drive was donated by a businessman.
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The full ban will be announced on Wednesday as part of a new health drive .
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In general though it is better to make your existing drive the master and the new drive the slave.
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This is the simplest way of laying a new path or drive .
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Stuck for clues. New drive for a lead in garden murder.
short
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No dinner is offered but there are many and varied eating establishments within a short drive .
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Emphasis on short selections during drive times.
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Unfortunately, this is not the case with many millions of people whose backache is worse after even a short drive .
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The Greco-Roman ruins, a short drive away, were thronged, but this amplified, rather than diminished, our visit.
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A short drive will take you to the Downs and Ashdown Forest.
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The park, a short drive south of downtown, is open from late May to early October.
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Woodbridge is 10 minutes away, several other courses within a short drive .
■ NOUN
disk
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Myth-3: New disk drive technology that doesn't improve seek time can be dismissed as ineffective.
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The faster the disk drive and controller, the faster the computer.
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However the chips on some machines may be located under disk drives or power supplies or other lumps of hardware.
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We learned how to hook up the printer and the disk drive .
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In use, the card acts just like a disk drive but it responds instantaneously.
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Then the disk drive whirred once more and the question mark evaporated.
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Security features include a locking disk drive cover, locking lid and cable clamps.
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Several schemes for disk drives were adopted and discarded.
recruitment
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The vicar is planning a recruitment drive in the New Year.
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Members needed: Darlington branch of the Friends of the Earth has launched a recruitment drive .
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The result was a big recruitment drive mounted by the Corporation across a wide parallel of jobs to fill the vacuums.
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A recruitment drive amongst blacks was however considered unlikely.
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Simon arrived at Bègles from Nice the year that Appriou started his recruitment drive .
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The campaign to lure doctors from abroad follows a similar recruitment drive for nurses.
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The day was organised by the Gloucestershire Regiment as part of a recruitment drive .
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Four unions have started a recruitment drive for new members after an eight year ban on union membership at the base.
test
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Have a word with your Mazda dealer and take a test drive down memory lane.
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The game demo lets you take a test drive .
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I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.
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Automakers are chary about shipping base cars for test drives , because those cars sell poorly.
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Or even better, visit your Peugeot dealer and take a test drive in the new Peugeot 605.
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And he took me out in it for a test drive .
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But it couldn't cope with John's test drive .
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A test drive should convince you that Mazda are going places.
wheel
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This may explain its reluctance to come out of four wheel drive .
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Furthermore, I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive .
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This is permanent four wheel drive with a free wheel overrun clutch in the front output to stop transmission wind up.
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Replace both so that you can use four wheel drive .
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Normally, this is done through land-\#wheel drive to maintain consistent application.
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Additions to the range followed rapidly, all of which follow the same formula of transverse engine layout and front wheel drive .
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At present it is only two wheel drive .
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hit
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Every time he hit a drive it ended up at least two time zones away.
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On the seventeenth, a short par-four curving to the left, Peter grunted after hitting a mammoth Whiplash drive .
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He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough.
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Why did he hit such a poor drive on twelve?
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After another Strachan run, Speed hit a first-time drive touched in by Imre Varadi for the third.
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Leadoff hitter Brett Hardy, a lefty, hit a line drive to left field.
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He hit his drive a good 340 yards to find the fairway, invisible from the tee.
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Peter hit a poor drive and a poor second, to the right of a nasty greenside bunker.
launch
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Members needed: Darlington branch of the Friends of the Earth has launched a recruitment drive .
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That announcement came as the Reform Party officially launched its own petition drive to win Texas ballot access in November.
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Sony launched a similar drive at the same time.
walk
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I could walk but instead I drive .
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They walked down the long drive to the little village outside the gates.
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He walked up the drive to the forecourt.
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Then they walk up the drive and knock on the front door.
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As they walked down the drive , Constance was surprised at how cool it was under the pines.
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The young couple were walking up the drive , arms about each other.
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No sign of Julie, but some one was walking up the drive towards the house.
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I really feel a foreigner and walk up the drive cursing the mud that has ruined my gold stilettos.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be as pure as the driven snow
drive sb bonkers
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The noise from the train tracks used to drive us bonkers .
drive sb insane
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The noise from the construction project is driving us completely insane .
drive sb potty
drive/strike a hard bargain
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Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
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It could also be that Reilly, who has never knowingly sold himself short, is driving a hard bargain.
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So he was right to drive a hard bargain.
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The farmer had grown used to billeting troops and drove a hard bargain.
driving ambition
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Talented but without driving ambition, Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson's disease.
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Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
driving force
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First, I would disagree that the Endangered Species Act is the driving force behind conservation decisions.
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For the lawyer and the judge, a driving force at all times has been the avalanche of precedents.
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Listening to the Finale in particular, I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance.
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The driving force of the rain precluded conversation, sealed each of us in with his own thoughts.
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The current history line is the driving force of the payroll and is subject to very high validation checks.
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This possessiveness can be a driving force behind each craftsman and his task.
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Was it feasible, was it remotely possible, that the mutation had some sort of driving force?
driving rain/snow
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He feels like a fool in his virtual reality goggles as he trudges through the driving rain to the parked aircraft.
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In the face of the hard, driving snow, the stage slowed.
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Inside, peace reigns, even in driving rain.
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The air was full of driving rain as Jack climbed the hill.
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The darkness was so complete that no one could have seen her through the driving rain and almost instantly the house disappeared.
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The somber job was made more difficult by driving snow and subfreezing temperatures.
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There was continuous driving rain, and a cold that numbed me.
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They carried parasols and held them against the driving snow as they minced along in three-inch clogs.
hit/drive/hammer etc sth home
needs must (when the devil drives)
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
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Little legs going like the clappers .
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Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
sales drive/campaign
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Both firms have announced small computers and plan big sales campaigns.
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Independent laboratory tests and a pilot sales campaign have confirmed that AirX works very successfully.
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The sales drive was interrupted by a legal hiccup.
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The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating, in which their major competitors were the gas boards.
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Valuable information such as company sales statistics or previous sales campaign studies can come from the client himself.
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
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But don't drive yourself into the ground .
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I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
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I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
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Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
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They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a scenic drive
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As part of the bank's efficiency drive substantial cuts are being made in the workforce.
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Brown was hired to lead a cattle drive north to the Canadian border.
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Greg certainly has the drive to become a good lawyer.
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Griffey hit a long, high drive to right field.
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He's clever enough, but he lacks drive .
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It's a beautiful day for a drive in the country.
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It's a two-hour drive to Hamilton from here.
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It's about a 20-minute drive into the city from here.
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Let's take a drive out to the farm.
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Put your disk in the "A" drive and click on "save."
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She was found dead at her home in Maple Drive .
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The beach is just a 20-minute drive from the city.
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The government's economy drive has failed to produce the expected savings.
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The government must continue this drive to find new, cleaner forms of energy.
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The Health Department launched an anti-smoking drive .
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The infantry made a drive deep into enemy territory.
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The male sex drive is not necessarily stronger than the female.
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The pickup has four-wheel drive .
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We need a new drive for investment in Britain's inner cities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bladder clenched, Thérèse limped down the drive behind her silent father.
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But where was the gear drive for the drill mechanism to come from?
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George played the entire first quarter and started the first scoring drive , which Klingler finished.
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I needed to realign my life, it said, not just my putt or my drive .
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If you have a low-profile computer without a free drive bay, you may have no choice but to replace the original.
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Not much to look at, because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles.
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The drive takes twelve hours in all.
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The workers were laid off in July 1994 when Sprint abruptly closed the company amid a union organizing drive .