Example sentences of "[verb] travel [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee .
2 TORY Minister Michael Howard has been caught travelling on a train without a ticket , it was revealed yesterday .
3 And business executives have disliked travelling to a special studio .
4 You want to travel in a Transit van and sleep on people 's floors .
5 A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed !
6 " There , " he said at last , when he 'd travelled in a half-circle .
7 Take carry-on baggage only : If you register to travel on a flight , your bags will get on even if you do n't .
8 If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth , one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge , but eventually comes back to where one started .
9 The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour .
10 For those who do n't wish to travel for a complete week or fortnight , there are a range of cheaper Flexi Rovers which allow you to choose which days you travel .
11 Eric would have to travel in a military train .
12 I would never have risked travelling with a family in such a car .
13 Just days after she had agreed to pay tax the new monarch-of-the-people was pictured travelling on a regular scheduled train and slipping out of an Oxfam shop in a public relations exercise that had as much subtlety as a Jeremy Beadle prank .
14 Anyone who has tried travelling in a bus or car on Euston road in the evening rush hour will know that it is bad enough at present ; to impose an additional 70 per cent .
15 Rudyard Kipling ( who once was forced to travel on a migrant train in the United States and found it a ‘ nightmare ’ ) encountered a peculiarly American hazard for the famous traveller .
16 Similarly , light tries to travel in a straight line , but the curvature of space-time near the sun causes the light from distant stars to be bent if it passes near the sun .
17 I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often .
18 He recalled that only last Friday Diana had travelled to a Humberside hospice .
19 The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before .
20 She knew she had to travel on a long , stony road , without help or sympathy .
21 Among African baboons , males transfer between groups and a powerful male begins travelling with a stranger troop , gradually gaining acceptance as a member .
22 Similar principles apply to all vehicles that are required to travel in a straight line .
23 The snag in the new venture is that , once again , participants have to travel to a special studio room in a hotel in London or New York .
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