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drive up

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Verb1.drive up - approach while driving; "The truck entered the driveway and drove up towards the house"
driving - the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
approach, draw near, near, come near, come on, draw close, go up - move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"
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vi (car, person) → vorfahren; a car drove up outside the house → ein Auto fuhr vor dem Haus vor


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The neighbouring parsons drive up, and when nobody is looking their wives count the candles in the cake; the active lady in the next Schlass spares time to send a pot of flowers, and to look up my age in the Gotha Almanach; a deputation comes from the farms headed by the chief inspector in white kid gloves who invokes Heaven's blessings on the gracious lady's head; and the babies are enchanted, and sit in a corner trying on all the mittens.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
At last, one evening I was driving up and down Torquay Terrace, as the street was called in which they boarded, when I saw a cab drive up to their door.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
There were many eyes to look at it, and Miss Priscilla Lammeter was glad that she and her father had happened to drive up to the door of the Red House just in time to see this pretty sight.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
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