Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] along [art] " in BNC.

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1 A few things got torn along the way .
2 The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting .
3 Woman named : A woman found wandering along the A167 last Saturday night has been identified as Margaret Ratcliffe , from Swalwell , near Newcastle .
4 Some of the crew tried getting along the bank — you know how people are sometimes found clinging to the branches of trees overhanging the river a mile or so downstream .
5 The silhouette of a small man in German uniform came shambling along the wire .
6 Her fingers lifted to stray along the proud angle of his jaw .
7 Before I could do anything , two medics came sprinting along the path from the direction of the big house .
8 It was a nice touch when she came running along the embankment , late , fresh from her lover 's embraces . ’
9 An hour or so later Owen was working peacefully in his office when the door slammed at the end of the building and feet came running along the corridor .
10 I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets .
11 As she got out of the lift on the top floor , Damian Flint came striding along the corridor and they collided .
12 It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows .
13 Fleury , too , continued to grieve for her and was now composing a poem in which her little ghost came tripping along the ramparts sniffing flowers , unperturbed by the flying cannon balls ( it was not a very good poem ) .
14 Opposition leaders made speeches during the gathering in the southern city of Kaohsiung , and some planned to walk along the route where the disturbances occurred .
15 It was n't the wind that brought tears to my eyes as I turned to walk along the cliff path .
16 The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof .
17 She started the engine without waiting for an answer and began to drive along the track winding down the mountain .
18 From there , they spread across Europe as the Roman empire began to swell Along the way , these early pest-controlling cats started to encounter the wild European cats and to hybridize with them .
19 I began walking along the track leading behind the beach towards the village , which was marked by the red tin roof of a tiny church showing above the casuarinas and palm trees .
20 The first companies of the infantry began to appear along the south side of the river , making a brave show , however weary with forced marching .
21 I contemplate the thought of days spent looking along the length of Tony 's tripod bag .
22 Gesturing that she was to follow him , he began to march along the path that led down the hill , and was quickly out of sight .
23 When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village .
24 Despite these optimistic thoughts , and his excitement , Ybreska stopped singing abruptly as he began to walk along the track .
25 He laughed with forced heartiness , as limping badly he began to walk along the corridor , leading the way , and Hari realized that he had used the laugh many times to conceal his true feelings .
26 They began to walk along the staging .
27 They left his house and began to walk along the road to the hill .
28 Harry climbed from the car , closed the door as quietly as he could and began to walk along the lane .
29 Then I began to walk along the old coach road .
30 As soon as they began to walk along the shops Owen was very glad that she had come .
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