Example sentences of "road which [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) . |
| 2 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |
| 3 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 4 | All that remains from those days is the outline of the road which led to the hangers . |
| 5 | It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College . |
| 6 | The noise intensified as the locomotive erupted between two large buildings , set some distance apart , beyond the tree-lined road which ran past the school . |
| 7 | She had entered the world in the January of what would prove to be a notorious year down in Stepney : a series of brutal murders was to take place on Ratcliff Highway , a major road which ran to the south of Well Close Square and right past St George 's church itself . |
| 8 | When they reached the road which ran across the top of the village , the groom drew level and , with a nod of his head , indicated that they should take the righthand way which led to the river bridge . |
| 9 | Our hut was on the far side of the Waaf site and well screened by hedges and trees from the road which ran up the hill through the camp . |
| 10 | The four set off along Brunel Road , following the tunnel wall until they passed the Labour Exchange then they veered left and picked up the road which ran alongside the river . |
| 11 | A single road , holed and pockmarked , connected the prison 's main gates to a small tarmac road which wound through the hills and moors like a dry tongue in search of water . |
| 12 | So I continued south , making my way along the great chalk road which snaked across the Downs to Dover . |
| 13 | Hardly looking like a suburban station in the densely populated Croydon area of south London is Coombe road which closed at the end of the 1982/3 timetable with the ending of services on the Elmers End–Sanderstead line . |