Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My tracer passed in line with the machine but behind it , and rather than stop firing , I pulled back steadily on my control column until the tracers crept along the rear of the machine and into the cockpit . |
| 2 | They will certainly leave the Centre much fitter than When they arrived , but not without a few bumps and bruises sustained along the way . |
| 3 | She watched as night-grey filtered out to recognisable shapes : the beached boats , the shifting edge of the sea , the low houses slung along the road . |
| 4 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 5 | Melissa led the way , easing herself between the car and an assortment of garden implements ranged along the wall . |
| 6 | So obvious are these vertical shafts and so compelling an attraction that it is usual on a fine day to find a line of cars parked along the roadside and people of all ages timidly visiting each one to peer into the depths . |
| 7 | A hundred metres further there was a barrier across the road with flashing lights , cars parked along the verges , police with guns . |
| 8 | He said that one elderly man had been killed on Hollyhurst Road because he was unable to find a safe place to cross owing of the amount of cars parked along the street . |
| 9 | In single file we push past traders ranged along the narrow decks . |
| 10 | His eyes moved along the branch and came to rest on a brilliant blue bird sitting there . |
| 11 | It is hoped to set up a network of United Nations monitors along the routes who will work closely with liaison officers from the Serb , Croat and Muslim factions so that the convoys are not fired on . |
| 12 | His eyes darted along the beach in reckless agony , which no amount of jogging or kayaking was able to dispel . |
| 13 | I let my gaze wander to the open grassy strip at the side of the block , which was almost completely empty of life , and then on to the red buses and cars hurrying along the main road . |
| 14 | The waves clashed along the bastions of the cliffs . |
| 15 | In addition , it is suggested that several seismic anomalies recognised along an apparent early Carboniferous hinge-line represent biohermal build-ups . |
| 16 | The river washed down on its run through Dublin into the sea , and a solitary man with a low-slung dog at his heels walked along the opposite bank . |
| 17 | Until the cars moving along the university 's peripheral roads were silverfish and the whole scene was dappled with low-lying cloud . |
| 18 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 19 | The plague bacillus , known by the Latin name Yersinia pestis , was carried on marmot skins by fur traders travelling along the old Silk Road from the East . |
| 20 | The sodium is only able to pass into the membrane through sodium ion channels distributed along the axon . |
| 21 | At one point , I was overtaken by two cars travelling along the narrow twisting country lane I was paralleling , and there was hardly any wind about , either . |
| 22 | Her slim legs flew along the wide grass path as if her life depended on it . |
| 23 | Those of the fort 's garrison who were not instantly blown to pieces had their lungs burst by the blast waves travelling along the corridors . |
| 24 | Gleaming French cars nosed along the cluttered roadway bearing corpulent Chinese and their bejewelled wives or concubines in their curtained interiors , and the staccato , unmelodious babble of the Cantonese dialect had entirely replaced the softer , sibilant tones of the Annamese language . |
| 25 | The tines are erect , almost beautiful , along the neck of the beautiful walls ; short , murderous hairs bristling along the nape of your fortress . |
| 26 | The new coast of the continent , although less fertile than the plains of old , has been planted and cultivated and once more chariots run along the coastal strip . |
| 27 | The skin of her legs flayed along the hard ribbed floor . |
| 28 | Cars streamed along the Embankment , their headlamps probing the dusk ; a barge slapped its way along the shimmering river . |
| 29 | It was roughening the surface of the river and turning a row of feluccas moored along the bank . |
| 30 | " We will discuss it later , " Katherine said absently , stopping on the last step , her eyes sweeping along the broad expanse of highly polished hallway , automatically checking the corners , beneath the lacquered Chinese table , around the edges of the mirror , and finally the glass on the print and picture frames . |