Example sentences of "[verb] along [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river .
2 Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker .
3 Also , the pressure on ministers to hustle along with the removal of lead may subside after a general election .
4 The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans .
5 The real force and power of God 's ‘ Yes ! ’ can only be heard along with the ‘ No ! ’ that is necessarily carried with it . )
6 In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen .
7 Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate .
8 The idea burst into her mind , a sudden radiant solution , that she could rush along to the pet shop at lunchtime and apologize , ask him to forgive her and make everything all right .
9 It goes along with the common complaint that there are areas and methods of serious investigation which are just not touched by scholastic doctrines .
10 He , who wishes to continue getting plenty , goes along with the plans for a better tomorrow .
11 Whether this chairman goes along with the president or not may turn on many factors , but bargaining is very likely to play a part .
12 because I just think it would , it 's so important to get that bit , that bit goes along with the all the application bit , if we tie those two up together
13 In fact , contrary to a persistent theme in neoclassical economics , competition between giant ‘ dominant firms ’ is often fiercer than the competition between small enterprises in unconcentrated markets : increasing scale often goes along with the development of a keener rationality of profit .
14 It usually goes along with the claim that the ‘ technical ’ division of labour , i.e. the actual distribution of tasks , is in some sense subordinate to the social division .
15 However , as I said , the industry broadly goes along with the CITB 's proposals and with this order , which embodies them .
16 Oh yes , I was gon na say , I think convincing is is another word that goes along with the general ambience of what influencing is about .
17 Well , immediately on the left there 's a door an and the hall goes along by the path that you , you come up to that door .
18 Oh yes we the boys were taught along with the girls , yes we were , we were all on , just in the one room .
19 Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust .
20 Some of the skinheads I 've met admit to having ‘ gone through ’ one or other of the parties of the extreme right , but , after a brief commitment , the enthusiasm tends to lapse along with the membership .
21 They were quite intimidating to a poor Waaf struggling along in the teeth of a gale , on a bike in a skirt .
22 The mass of promenaders bulged along in the committee 's wake , creating some difficulty as they turned into the narrow High Street and into Albion Street .
23 Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board .
24 Soon lobbing along behind the leaders , Llewellyn was always finding plenty of room for Party Politics and by the second Canal Turn , when Romany King moved up to join Hotplate , the race had begun to take it 's final shape .
25 While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name .
26 And then I 'm hobbling along into the bathroom .
27 Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls .
28 Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem .
29 ‘ He 's a lovely little ride , that one , ’ Dennis called out to her as they rode along in the string .
30 Together they rode along in the dark , Tess holding on to Alec .
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