Example sentences of "[v-ing] along the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was chugging along the Promenade des Anglais , a boulevard lined with splendid palm-trees . |
| 2 | It starts to get rockier too , as you soon realize driving along the valley road past Bid array , which has been cut through the often quite garish sandstone . |
| 3 | Mr Reid said that Clarke 's Bedford van was at the head of a line of vehicles driving along the road as darkness fell . |
| 4 | 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 ) |
| 5 | Obviously when you 're driving along the road the observation y wants to be up the road as far as it possibly can be . |
| 6 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That just by coming to England and driving along the road from Dover to , to London or wherever he has given his tacit consent . |
| 9 | Another way of looking at tranquillizer use is to think of the following analogy : you are driving along the motorway and suddenly your car oil warning light comes on . |
| 10 | So he 's driving along the motorway at steady sixty . |
| 11 | Driving along the lane , she tried to picture Hywel parking his tractor and going into his house to be greeted by Elizabeth , and found it impossible . |
| 12 | Behind them the shore was already a dimly glimpsed grey line , the individual details of buildings , or a car driving along the shore road , lost under the hazy shadow of hillside and moor beyond . |
| 13 | Driving along the Quay , Lucy thought about that morning when she had gone to the little bistro on the Place de Trainant to find Volkov . |
| 14 | ‘ She was in school uniform but she made such an impact on me I nearly burst my tyres driving along the pavement , ’ Sarah says . |
| 15 | We were driving along the coast road to Sligo , beside flat fields . |
| 16 | Entering Biarritz by the coast road like this , you end by driving along the Avenue Édouard VII , which leads down into the centre of the town and sets the tone for a resort that was for a while Europe 's princeliest . |
| 17 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 18 | Some Zanskaris make a six day shopping expedition to Leh taking goat wool and yak butter to trade and returning along the river with salt , tea , sugar , rice , matches and perhaps one or two luxury items . |
| 19 | Returning along the track , a gate in the wall on the right near a barn , 200 yards short of Calf Holes , admits to a sloping field with a sharp descent after passing a limekiln to Browgill Cave ; the stream which issues from there is the one that disappears into Calf Holes . |
| 20 | The zinc is formed whilst cooling along the line from A to E. To the right of E at temperatures equal to or lower than 270°C the solid consists of a mixture of cadmium and the eutectic mixture . |
| 21 | It was climbing along the branch of a tree next to the church in West End Lane , West Hampstead , London . |
| 22 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 23 | They wore their Sunday black and were climbing along the path over the hill , girding it as if with an emblematic mourning ribbon . |
| 24 | A longer but more interesting approach is possible by leaving the cart track at the viaduct and keeping along the east side of the railway ; join the track from Winterscales to Dentdale by passing over a bridge near the entrance to Blea Moor tunnel . |
| 25 | Keeping along the watershed between the Warwickshire Avon and the Cherwell , it runs past Oatley Hill Farm to Wigginton Heath . |
| 26 | We wanted to know whether this was occurring along the coast . |
| 27 | I leave and there he is , the man from breakfast , walking along the back of the row of restaurants . |
| 28 | ‘ Around 3am , he was walking along the back of some houses . |
| 29 | I 'm up here on the … no , it 's not a stage , it 's a swimming pool , and I 'm walking along the top of it . |
| 30 | To the south-west , owners of beach holiday homes are trying to claim new beach thrown up by the latest sea defence scheme and to prevent non-owners from walking along the top of the beach . |