Example sentences of "they [vb base] along the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 2 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Phil tells Howard one day , as they walk along the street eating fish and chips out of a Greek newspaper , ‘ I think it 's probably going to be the spitting image of you . ’ |
| 3 | Although they spread along the bank and searched the turbulence anxiously , there was no sign of the groom , either dead or alive . |
| 4 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 5 | ‘ There they go along the street … not Jocks though … wrong sort of … |
| 6 | They move along the underground systems to either emerge in due course or stay tight to rabbits they have encountered . |
| 7 | As they move along the machine from the bath of resin , all the rovings are pulled together , and they disappear into a block of metal through a single hole which determines the final diameter . |
| 8 | The result is that they move along the beach with a type of zigzag motion ( Fig. 8.14 ) . |
| 9 | If you actually read the code letters as they occur along the chromosome ( i.e. if you do the equivalent of breaking out of the discipline of the ‘ operating system ’ ) you find fragments of ‘ sense ’ , called exons , separated by portions of ‘ nonsense ’ called introns . |