Example sentences of "road and [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mortar team are still lobbing their bombs into the enemy positions as we dash across the road and over a five-bar gate , then double along the hedgerow that runs alongside the road . |
| 2 | Right next thing you ask her to stand in the middle of the road and under a train and she would do ! |
| 3 | TWO YOUTHS miraculously escaped injury last night when the car they were travelling in crashed off a busy road and into a subway . |
| 4 | The men were the brothers of Patrick Welsh , one of the two men a jury had just cleared Mr Thompson of killing by using his Jaguar to force their van off the road and into a wall and lamp post . |
| 5 | From Janet 's Foss my way led across the road and through a gate where the Dales Park have placed a plaque telling me that this is Gordale Scar and to keep to the path . |
| 6 | Without the background notes we would not have known that , among many other points of interest , our boots crunched long the line of an 1805 horse-drawn tram road and beside a pub used as a meeting for Chartist agitators . |
| 7 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
| 8 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 9 | Turn left onto the road and after a short distance bear left onto a stony track which rejoins the main road further along . |