I. noun
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 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.
autograph driving
disqualified from driving
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He was disqualified from driving .
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
motorway driving
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Is motorway driving included in the driving test?
reckless driving
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He was accused of causing death by reckless driving .
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
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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The typical conjecture is that if you protect car driver from their mistakes you encourage bad driving .
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Lesser sins include getting drunk, fiddling company expenses, eating too much - and bad driving .
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Police say bad driving is still the biggest danger.
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Police say bad driving , and not the weather, was to blame.
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Between tests, the emergency services showed how they have to step in when bad driving takes its toll.
careless
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He was fined 300-pounds and given six penalty points for careless driving .
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Clearly, the difference between reckless driving and careless driving is one of degree.
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He was over the drink-drive limit and had a previous conviction for careless driving .
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A van driver involved in the accident has been charged with causing death by careless driving .
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Neighbour Martin Clarke, 31, has been charged with causing his death by careless driving .
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He pleaded guilty to careless driving in a letter to the court and was fined £300 and ordered to pay £20 costs.
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Consider careless driving in such circumstances. 5 &038; 6.
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A 31-year-old labourer was yesterday charged with causing the death of Mr Adams by careless driving after drinking excessively.
dangerous
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He: Vowed again that he would increase the top penalty for causing death by dangerous driving to ten years.
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Read in studio A man has appeared in court accused of causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous driving .
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The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders.
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One of them, who's fifteen, is also charged with dangerous driving .
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The procurator-fiscal insisted on pressing the more serious charge of killing some one by dangerous driving , while being drunk.
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He's charged with causing death by dangerous driving , failing to stop and report an accident and driving with excess alcohol.
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If their driving is hazardous enough they can be charged with dangerous driving and tried before magistrates or even a crown court.
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Chapman, of Billericay, admitted dangerous driving after drinking twice the legal limit.
drunken
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Did you know he'd been convicted of drunken driving ?
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Bad cheque passing has risen by 87 percent and drunken driving by 205 percent.
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These include drunken driving , underage drinking and research into alcohol related problems.
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This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents.
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For example, in the United States the Century Council targets drunken driving and underage drinking.
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Could be drunken driving , manslaughter, who knows?
guilty
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He pleaded guilty to careless driving in a letter to the court and was fined £300 and ordered to pay £20 costs.
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At an earlier hearing, he'd pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol in his blood.
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Henderson pleaded guilty to careless driving , driving while disqualified and without any proper insurance cover.
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He was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.
reckless
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They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving .
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Motorsists seen tail-gating risk prosecution for reckless driving .
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Hazlett was also charged with reckless driving causing grievous bodily harm to two people.
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Clearly, the difference between reckless driving and careless driving is one of degree.
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McCausland was also sentenced to six months for reckless driving and for driving without insurance, the sentences to run concurrently.
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He admitted two offences of taking a car without consent, reckless driving and driving while disqualified.
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The driver was eventually sentenced to six months in prison for reckless driving .
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Burgess, 21, admitted three offences of reckless driving and three of driving while disqualified.
■ NOUN
drink
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Last year three and a half thousand people were prosecuted for drink driving in the Thames Valley area.
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Voice over Clarke was convicted of drink driving ten years ago and banned for 18 months.
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He'd been disqualified for not having insurance and disqualified before that for drink driving .
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Increasing penalties for those convicted of drink driving .
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He had three previous convictions for drink driving and three for careless driving.
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All sides say the battle against drink driving is yet to be won.
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Since breath tests were introduced at the end of the Sixties, more than 25,000 people have been killed by drink driving .
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Other victims of drink driving have backed the new campaign.
■ VERB
admit
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Read in studio A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving .
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He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he shouldn't be banned.
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Shaun Largue had admitted reckless driving at Teesside Crown Court.
ban
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Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years.
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He was banned from driving for 6 months and ordered to do 200 hours of community service.
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He was banned from driving for a year.
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Both were also banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £25 costs.
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His father, Earl Bathurst, was banned from driving after a drink-drive conviction 4 years ago.
charge
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William McCabe, who's sixty-three, is charged with driving with excess alcohol.
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If their driving is hazardous enough they can be charged with dangerous driving and tried before magistrates or even a crown court.
disqualify
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If you were disqualified from driving , this two year period starts when the period of disqualification has ended.
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Magistrates gave him a conditional discharge and disqualified him from driving for two years.
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He was disqualified from driving for six months.
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The magistrates fined her £130 and disqualified her from driving for 19 months.
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Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months.
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Harris, who also picked up a speeding conviction last year, was disqualified from driving for 21 days and fined £100.
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At the time of the crash in July, he'd been disqualified from driving .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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 ?
what sb is driving at
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She didn't mention "sexual harassment," but I knew what she was driving at.
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Many candidates don't recognize what the question is driving at.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Driving in central London is pretty unpleasant.
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I got driving lessons for my 18th birthday.
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She was arrested for dangerous driving .
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The man was stopped by police for an alleged driving offence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A man has been charged with causing death by reckless driving .
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Hazlett was also charged with reckless driving causing grievous bodily harm to two people.
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It took him half an hour's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point.
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Last year three and a half thousand people were prosecuted for drink driving in the Thames Valley area.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
experience
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Because although economic considerations are normally behind the switch, many new converts rapidly discover they prefer the diesel driving experience .
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The subjects were broadly similar to those used in this study in terms of age and driving experience .
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Of course, there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience .
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The first questionnaire was about their driving experience including the questions about accidents and near misses that were reported in Study 1.
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The fact: driving Porsche's twenty six year old 911 is still one of the world's greatest driving experiences .
force
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But is kinship really an important driving force behind cooperation in male lions?
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However, we all know that it is important and that it is the driving force of structure.
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Whatever the driving force , heat conservation has many advantages.
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There's no doubt who was the driving force behind their stunning business success.
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Mrs Frizzell was the ruthless driving force behind his business.
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The driving force of a flourishing society is individual acquisitiveness which creates demands that boost trade and increase the general wealth.
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This suggests that the major transfer of care from state hospitals has taken place without any specific political driving force .
forces
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The basic driving forces propelling firms abroad come from managers' desires for growth, for cost reduction and for control.
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One of the driving forces behind this recent expansion is the growth of services.
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We single out technology and the structure of international finance as the primary driving forces for change.
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Morality and pacifist emotion were the driving forces behind much of the uninformed criticism of the Sandys Reformation.
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Intelligent and articulate he became one of the driving forces in relaunching the fortunes of the Bègles club.
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These driving forces are directly related to the supply driven nature of health care.
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His energy, kindness and humour were driving forces in the Company's development.
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This in fact was one of the driving forces behind the development of activity-based costing - the labour-hour basis was no longer applicable.
rain
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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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Inside, peace reigns, even in driving rain .
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There was continuous driving rain , and a cold that numbed me.
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The air was full of driving rain as Jack climbed the hill.
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He took the Mascot Missile's keys from the tray in the hall and went out into the driving rain .
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He let go and ducked back into the driving rain .