Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] along a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In trying to keep the wheelbarrow upright as I walked , I moved along a wavy line . |
| 2 | It was like an itch , something I had no way of resisting , like when I walk along a pavement in Porteneil and I accidentally scuff one heel on a paving stone . |
| 3 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
| 4 | I looked along a line of patients and recognized a back still straight and a head still proudly held . |
| 5 | I went along a few more times , but just sat there in silence . |
| 6 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 7 | ‘ I took along a card showing a Victorian photograph of male athletes . |
| 8 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 9 | Most of the work is composed in six-line tail-rhyme stanzas , rhyming A A B C C B. There are usually two main stresses within the line of at least six syllables which may also be made coherent by the use of alliteration , internal rhyme and assonance , as , for instance , in the first stanza : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . ) |
| 10 | Indeed before we even come to the characterization of characters within the drama we find the poem itself being apparently characterized one way but then characterized another in the opening three stanzas : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . |
| 11 | Fan-assisted flue ducts allow some fires to be used up to 4m away from the outside wall — they are often skirting flues , which run along a skirting board to an outside wall , and an be used to complement a limited range of conventional fires . |
| 12 | The idea is that you bring along a fully licensed copy of a rival business application , buy a Microsoft Office Trade-In pack , which includes a mouse mat , voucher and pre-paid envelope , post the voucher with proof of ownership and Microsoft sends you Office 3.0 , which has a recommended price of £575 . |
| 13 | This was the business end of her trip but before she started she wandered along a crowded beach , taking photographs of the sands , waterskiers and windsurfers , the tree-lined promenade and the backdrop of mountains beyond . |
| 14 | You walk along a narrow balcony over-looking a courtyard , much in the style of a British council estate , although in good repair . |
| 15 | If you get a sudden whiff of musk as you walk along a path in the early morning , this is almost certainly fox and not badger , which is rarely powerful enough to hang in the air . |
| 16 | A WOMAN who was spotted breastfeeding her baby as she drove along a busy main road was being hunted last night . |
| 17 | She clung to me , and then she ran away ; she dashed through the flowers in the long grass , she twirled around a tree and sent lizards scuttling , she skipped along a sandy path . |
| 18 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 19 | At 1.30am , a 46-year-old was assaulted as she walked alone Hospital Lane and at 3am he attacked a 22-year-old as she walked along a path at Greystone Road . |
| 20 | The eighteen year old was punched as she walked along a path in Campbell Park in Milton Keynes . |
| 21 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 22 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 23 | The girl , who had started her paper round to earn money for Chrismas presents , was grabbed as she walked along an alleyway after finishing her Saturday morning deliveries . |
| 24 | I watch you freewheeling along a vine-wrapped colonnade , and pause under an archway wrought in stone and lovely with purple flowers ringing in the new light . |
| 25 | You bowl along a wide , long and beautiful village green , with great stretches of park and garden wall , overhanging trees , duckponds and scattered houses on either side . |
| 26 | She went along a path above St Saviour 's Point where guillemots soared and gannets plunged , wings folded , into the sea below . |
| 27 | Would you like me to totter along a white line ? |
| 28 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 29 | Each one searches along a zig-zag course . |
| 30 | I once found an injured one walking along a beach near where I live , and when I picked it up to see what was wrong , I underestimated the length of its beak . |