Example sentences of "along [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats . |
| 2 | Her feet kept on blundering along through the darkness and a stitch stabbed at her side but she blinded herself to exhaustion and ran . |
| 3 | Rushed along through the dark , their faces soon settled to the same blank , tranced appearance as everyone else 's . |
| 4 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 5 | It was quicker to go direct to Jamaica Road and along through the railway arch to Bermondsey Market , but Nellie made the detour purposely . |
| 6 | As I understand it , disabled people were using the Friends Meeting House for their meetings , but with the pedestrianisation they ca n't very well get their vehicles along during the day . |
| 7 | Staying close to the wooden wall , he crept along between the shed and the hedge . |
| 8 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 9 | And that looks like bringing rain along for the afternoon . |
| 10 | Like Patterson and company in the past , he is being brought along for the experience . |
| 11 | Or were you just stringing him along for the fun of it ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We only wanted athletes of distinction and no one is going along for the trip , ’ Murray said . |
| 13 | Calm and quiet , Trent picked him as the technical adviser along for the trip but without direct responsibility for the outcome . |
| 14 | She was part of an equation , nothing more , along for the trip because that was the way of it . |
| 15 | In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan . |
| 16 | I think they 're along for the purpose of camouflage , respectability , if you will . |
| 17 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 18 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 19 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 20 | They are along for the duration . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake . |
| 23 | I was along for the ride . |
| 24 | Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … . |
| 25 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 26 | Close behind is his son , Simon , who came along for the ride on his 1916 600cc Douglas , which falls outside the official December 1914 entry date . |
| 27 | Of course you can view it , as some bridle-riders do , as a holiday for your horse — you just go along for the ride . |
| 28 | She is one of the successful new generation of country artists brave enough to stretch the genre , and talented enough to take its audience along for the ride . |
| 29 | Domestic problems do n't arise when the Rayners want to go to a game — the whole family go along for the ride . |
| 30 | But then , as the new , more streamlined , machine slips into the twentieth century , moving smoothly and with a new confidence — and by now virtually everybody is along for the ride — it crashes catastrophically . |