Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] along the " in BNC.
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| 1 | walnuts never if you crack them along the seam they never come out whole , you always break into the nut |
| 2 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 3 | And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent . |
| 4 | GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia . |
| 5 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 6 | In places vehicles which had preceded them along the track had exposed the sterile moss . |
| 7 | But passengers pursued me along the road , gathering up my garments and vowing aloud never to succumb to the pleas of their offspring for riding lessons . |
| 8 | There were traps to catch them along the way . |
| 9 | He gambles that I will not leap down and pursue him along the pavement . |
| 10 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 11 | He tried to break free , but he could not ; there were too many of them , manhandling him along the narrow jetty . |
| 12 | Maybe Henry would have ended up warped and perverse but his unofficial education among the elite certainly helped him along the way . |
| 13 | Sheila , however , hung grimly on to it , whereupon the boy began to pull her along the path . |
| 14 | Floating pumice fields were so thick that sailors could walk on them — and some bore bleaching human remains 4,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to deposit them along the beaches of Zanzibar . |
| 15 | And then you , Sir John ! lust in case I should forget , or withdraw , or hide behind my church walls , you are here , ready to lead me along the streets , remind me that there is no escape from murder , from witnessing the greatest sin of all — a man slaying his brother ! ’ |
| 16 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 17 | He used to clean all our shoes and put them along the floor . |
| 18 | At the very end of his lite , writing again of the importance of how his experience as a homosexual had pushed him along the path of revolt , and recalling joyfully one of his lovers , Mala , Gide adds : |
| 19 | Mrs McMullen 's face and neck had been covered in a thick layer of mud and Dr Wayte suggested that an attacker had sat astride her , possibly grabbing soil and pushing it along the body and into her mouth . |
| 20 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 21 | As far as I know , there are no other examples of ex GWR design main line engines having made it along the North Wales coast , and I for one will follow with interest the happenings of February 29th 1992 . |
| 22 | Bury cuttings to half their depth , either by pushing them into the soil or by lining them along the side of a slit cut in the soil with a spade ( in heavy soil , sprinkle a layer of sand at the base of the slit ) . |
| 23 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 24 | The Turks then flog them along the tourist drag between the Brandenburg Gate and what used to be Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 25 | ‘ Jim 's in the sitting-room , ’ he said , leading them along the corridor . |
| 26 | Wu Shih turned , leading them along the lang , the covered walkway , then up a twist of wooden steps and out on to a broad gallery above a concealed lake . |
| 27 | Children were now gathering vast quantities of the pale mauve cyclamens and selling them along the main road to Trieste or at the railway station at Sesljan ( Sistiana ) . |
| 28 | I am leading you along the path I had to tread to find the most suitable disease , for only in this way can I be sure that the reader understands the nature of the ultimate decision and the ludicrousness of any attempt to confuse it with my own stick and gloves or any prior misinformation regarding the state of my own health . |
| 29 | The next moment he was inside and she was closing the door behind him , then leading him along the narrow hallway towards the living-room . |
| 30 | Without half a bottle of red wine inside me I might have slipped on the slimy breakwater , but I jump onto the stony beach and chase her along the shore . |