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Example sentences for "being driven"

  • If the ore is easily melted, one or two wicker baskets full are thrown into the front part of the furnace so that the fire, being driven back by it, may also smelt the ore and the sows that form round about the nozzles of the bellows.

  • Being driven 500 leagues from the continent by the contrary winds, the commodore now believed that he was beyond Cape Horn to the westwards, and steered therefore N.

  • While enveloped in thick mists, they were apprehensive of being driven by the extreme violence of the winds upon mountains of ice, where they must inevitably have perished.

  • Hollow work, as nuts and washers, may be equally operated on being driven by a mandril held in the chuck.

  • In this case, the nut may be screwed up to take up the wear, and the pin by being driven farther in will still bear against the nut and prevent its slacking back.

  • File a notch in the centre, and leave the iron a little wider than the rib, so that it may admit of being driven a little to either side, and the superfluous metal filed off when the adjustment is nearly perfected.

  • The chine groove may be cut with a saw, and it is better that the staves should be always a little narrower at the ends than in the middle, so that the hoops may tighten in being driven on.

  • The trial was disadvantageous for the self-acting mules, being driven by a very short and light vertical strap, the hand-mule having a long horizontal strap.

  • If railing and reproach and mockery Because I have awakened her to love My magic strings, I’ll make this answer to it: Being driven on by voices and by dreams That were clear messages from the ever-living, I have done right.

  • If railing and reproach and mockery Because I have awakened her to love By magic strings, I’ll make this answer to it: Being driven on by voices and by dreams That were clear messages from the ever-living, I have done right.

  • Twas you that egged him to it, for you know That he is being driven to his death.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being afraid; being capable; being careful; being composed; being considered; being devoured; being duly; being elected; being equal; being equivalent; being found; being free; being gone; being ignorant; being interpreted; being late; being miserable; being nearly; being raised; being separated; being summoned; being thus; being unable; fifty thousand; nursery rows; thousand little