Example sentences of "[verb] [be] travelling [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 2 | Andrew Simmons of ITN has been travelling with the convoy , and has sent us this special report . |
| 3 | The light from the big bang , though , has come much farther — it has been travelling since the time , less than 1m years after the moment of creation , when the universe became thin enough for radiation emitted by one atom to be unlikely to hit another . |
| 4 | ‘ A team of Treasury officials has been travelling throughout Europe to coordinate positions . |
| 5 | The rational part of his mind knew this could not be the case , and that it was most likely he 'd been travelling in circles . |
| 6 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
| 7 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |
| 8 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 9 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 10 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |
| 11 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 12 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 13 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 14 | She had long since left the path and he had been travelling across rough land for some time — there was a high trail of dust behind the vehicle . |
| 15 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |
| 16 | For the last few minutes , she had been travelling in parallel to her previous route . |
| 17 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 18 | During the trial the court heard that the vessel had been travelling from Libya to the Republic of Ireland with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA , the previous four having got through undetected . |
| 19 | It had been travelling from Libya with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA . |
| 20 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 21 | It really is er a new model Secretary of State although the fact of the matter is Mr Deputy Speaker , that er his reality of course is quite different from his and the reality is that this is a poor settlement for local government in Wales and it 's been roundly condemned , not least by the county councils , who is the largest employers in Wales will have to face the considerable burden imposed on them by the government 's acceptance of the public sector er review body recommendations but without the additional cash to meet those awards and what this settlement er does represent Mr Deputy Speaker is a further step along the road that we 've been travelling since nineteen seventy nine . |
| 22 | I spent three months in the Canaries , and since then I 've been travelling between England and Ireland . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 24 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 25 | YORK IS preparing to repel a band of gypsies who have been travelling to the city for centuries . |
| 26 | We have been travelling to China every three or four years since 1971 . |
| 27 | Generations of gypsies have been travelling to Stow each year . |
| 28 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 29 | Paramedics have been travelling on emergency ambulances in Oxfordshire since the 1970s . |
| 30 | The distance he 's travelled is equal to sixty miles per hour times the number of hours , he 's been travelling for okay ? |