Example sentences of "along [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Breathing deeply and evenly , he jogged steadily along through the rustling darkness of the forest , enjoying the exertion and allowing the exercise to wash away the pressures of the past night .
2 The final component of the system is a new management tool , the OpenServer Remote Manager ( list price £2,650 ) , which works in conjunction with an OpenServer Management Agent that is to be added to the OpenServer 400 family : it is initially to be incorporated onto the Unix version ( expected at the end of the month ) , with MS-DOS and OS/2 versions following along during the second quarter of the year .
3 Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless .
4 thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ?
5 Instead of drifting along the ceiling of the corridor , the smoke moves along as a solid plug .
6 ‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day .
7 In the 1980s Britain was coasting along as the fourth-largest west European R&D spender on space — behind France , Germany and Italy .
8 Instead John Major invites 200 carefully selected friends along for a cosy chat about how rosy the Tory garden is .
9 You 'll probably find when you register you 're invited to go along for a new patient medical anyway , and all sorts of things like that .
10 ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later .
11 The sing-song lumbered along for a little while but it appears that the ‘ Ball of Kirriemuir ’ has been removed from the Examination Syllabus .
12 I 'd take him along for a veterinary verdict on these possibilities and take it from there .
13 But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it .
14 Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check .
15 Nobody , though , captured the Bull Dog spirit like quarter-miler Derek Redmond , hopping along for the final 200 metres with a busted hamstring and his dad 's help .
16 ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets .
17 And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years .
18 Once a celebrity has agreed to be a guest , the researcher assigned to him or her will go along for an exploratory conversation .
19 Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate .
20 Go , go that 's it go along towards the positive numbers .
21 Add , that means go along towards the positive numbers , and I 'm going to count , how many am I going to count ?
22 He would stand in the corridor which ran along past the junior classrooms , as he had done that morning , and listen to the lessons being given .
23 So Tom took them along past the new Pump House , the old Turkeycock School and down Main Street to the ancient Sand Gate .
24 Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' .
25 The wind was moving everything along like a nervous policeman .
26 Now run along like a good girl and do n't be late tomorrow . ’
27 ‘ Come along like a sensible girl and have a nice cup of coffee in the sitting-room , where we can talk . ’
28 ‘ And bouncing along like a rubber ball . ’
29 Relentlessly , the amazing force of the tide rolled and twisted his body along like a dead sheep .
30 The first half of the twentieth century saw a considerable broadening in the provision of income-maintenance facilities for elderly people in Britain such that , dragged along behind the overall rise in living standards , their absolute material conditions improved greatly .
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