Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the road " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slammed on her brakes and horn simultaneously as the jeep swerved to miss her , careering off the road and crashing into the gully alongside . |
| 2 | Mr Reid said that Clarke 's Bedford van was at the head of a line of vehicles driving along the road as darkness fell . |
| 3 | normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you 're driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of + stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it 's just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate ( kAz ) — colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean ++ ( Postgraduate student speaking informally ) |
| 4 | Obviously when you 're driving along the road the observation y wants to be up the road as far as it possibly can be . |
| 5 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 6 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 7 | That just by coming to England and driving along the road from Dover to , to London or wherever he has given his tacit consent . |
| 8 | Crosby said : ‘ If I worry about what 's happening up the road , I 'll lose track of what we are doing here . |
| 9 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 10 | Lowell , driving up the road in the opposite direction , had witnessed the collision — a minor one — and decided to do nothing about it . |
| 11 | At about 1.40pm cars started to appear and people were seen walking up the road . |
| 12 | We were walking up the road from the hotel when a young man padded up behind us and greeted us in English . |
| 13 | How tired and drab she looks , thought Rupert Stonebird , walking up the road behind her . |
| 14 | walking up the road , we can tell them . |
| 15 | If we see her walking up the road we can tell her , and if we do n't , we 'll give them a ring later on . |
| 16 | I 've been , I was thinking today actually when I was walking up the road and I thought oh the is shut again . |
| 17 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |
| 18 | T. D. The discipline was tyranny but it was n't bad for us — two policemen walking along the road together , talking about women or football like everybody else , and they ca n't keep their eyes for crime or for offences being committed under their noses . |
| 19 | From Staveley walk northwards to Kentmere ( 4.5 miles ) but avoid walking along the road . |
| 20 | I was walking along the road and all of a sudden this police car drew up beside me . |
| 21 | Gabriel obeyed at once , and while riding along was thinking so hard about the shooting that in the darkness he failed to notice a man walking along the road to Casterbridge . |
| 22 | Er who 've just been walking along the road . |
| 23 | So he started walking along the road out of town . |
| 24 | Carl is walking along the road to Bar Capri with his mother . |
| 25 | So they 've done it , I think someone er who 's walking along the road , see you standing there taking that picture and say , what on earth are they taking a picture of that for ? |
| 26 | I 'd popped into the library to get a book renewed and when I left the college building I saw her walking along the road on her own . ’ |
| 27 | One day , waiting in the car in Albion Street to pick up my brother-in-law from work ( he looks like Norman Lamont , incidently , but she loves him dearly ) , she suddenly saw me , her brother who 's supposed to be living in exile down south , walking along the road in the company of a glamorous lady . |
| 28 | You 're walking along the road and you have a pound coin in your hand and you drop it it rolls along the gutter erm Harlow drains are not quite like the drains we used have in London , |
| 29 | I mean he for him to see it walking along the road if there was anything . |
| 30 | He had seen two men walking in the road . |