Example sentences of "along [prep] [art] [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 He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep .
7 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 .
8 Staying close to the wooden wall , he crept along between the shed and the hedge .
9 Each tree consists of just two branches , 2–3ft long , running along about a foot off the ground .
10 It was true that the two had attended a house auction , but Kylie had simply gone along as a friend while Jason bid for the house he wanted to buy for himself .
11 Independent of separated words , as whole as water , it bore her along as a part of itself , a gold current that connected everything , a secret river running underground , the deep well , the source of life , a flood driving through her , salty breaker on her own beach , streams of words and non-words , voices calling out which were staccato , echoing , which promised bliss .
12 These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i .
13 " Take Tristram along as a younker , and let it be known in the village you 're doing so .
14 One project was to literally find out all of the old age pensioners in town and go along as a group of electricians and check all of their appliances for them .
15 ‘ However , he took you along as a witness . ’
16 Egerton went , taking the very sensible precaution of asking Mickey Skinner along as a bodyguard .
17 I was privileged to be invited along as an observer at the latest meeting at which the question of the small company audit was discussed .
18 Kyaw Nyein went along as an Adviser , and Rance also wanted Thakin Nu to go : he was , he told London , ‘ The most important member of AFPFL Working Committee excluding Aung San ’ ( 29 December ) , but he remained behind to give direction to the League while the others were in London .
19 Let it carry him along for a bit longer .
20 He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity .
21 ‘ And — ah — I shall be in my study , and delighted to meet any of you , should you care to come along for a chat , ’ said the headmaster , very much as an afterthought , and clearly hoping they would n't .
22 The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride .
23 The exhibition 's open to all , but it did n't take much to persuade Scotland Today 's Patsi MacKenzie to wander along for a preview .
24 Kim Barnes went along for a preview .
25 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 .
26 And that looks like bringing rain along for the afternoon .
27 Like Patterson and company in the past , he is being brought along for the experience .
28 Or were you just stringing him along for the fun of it ? ’
29 ‘ We only wanted athletes of distinction and no one is going along for the trip , ’ Murray said .
30 Calm and quiet , Trent picked him as the technical adviser along for the trip but without direct responsibility for the outcome .
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