Example sentences of "[vb past] along [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 2 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's a lovely little ride , that one , ’ Dennis called out to her as they rode along in the string . |
| 6 | Together they rode along in the dark , Tess holding on to Alec . |
| 7 | Paul Ashmead was sent off while number eight Bobby Fowke limped along with an injury … |
| 8 | Beside the boat-house a jetty thrust out into the water , and from this a weedy , once-gravelled path led along above the beach to the stone archway which was the garden gate of Taigh na Tuir . |
| 9 | Staying close to the wooden wall , he crept along between the shed and the hedge . |
| 10 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 11 | She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle , avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage . |
| 12 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 13 | In so far as Preobrazhensky claimed that there was a law of primitive socialist accumulation in the Soviet economy which operated along with the law of value , he denied that there could be one , single , regulator for the whole economy . |
| 14 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 15 | As I stood on the walkway , the water level reached above my knees , and I waded along beside the wall in the direction of the lower door and the river . |
| 16 | I staggered along with the baby and the heavy bag , and , of course , Elaine was n't there . |
| 17 | ‘ The poor old souls like to know what one 's doing , ’ he explained to Jannie , as they jerked along in the traffic stream between aunt and aunt . |
| 18 | It bounced along above the pushchair , flashing gold , red and silver in the sunshine . |
| 19 | Billy 's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather , so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts . |
| 20 | Sears put on 2 to 92p , helped along by a couple of brokers ' recommendations . |
| 21 | Fisons enjoyed another buoyant session , helped along by a few comforting words from broker Hoare Govett , who hosted a presentation to institutions on Wednesday . |
| 22 | It was Viola , helped along by a policeman and a fireman , weeping uncontrollably , her old legs hardly able to bear her , even with support on either side . |
| 23 | There is a definite air of mystery around The Black Dog — helped along by the fact that their records have often been near-impossible to find . |
| 24 | Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again . |
| 25 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 26 | English Shakespeare Company , Darlington Civic Theatre A RATHER timid audience still shaken from the English Shakespeare Company 's new version of Macbeth ventured along to the opening night of the old romantic favourite Twelfth Night , apprehensive at what was in store this time around . |
| 27 | The day progressed and temperatures and humidity rose along with the fiercely contested matches . |
| 28 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 29 | She even hummed along with the radio as she rattled down the motorway , something she had n't felt like doing in a long time . |
| 30 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |