Example sentences of "walk the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nights in the room were false and useless and meaningless and the nights walking the city were false and useless and meaningless , the notes for the box were false and useless and meaningless and this freewheeling account of the progress of the glass is false and useless and meaningless , late and doubly late and unaware of its lateness , nothing and again nothing and worse than nothing . |
| 2 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 3 | I continued walking the streets for three years , sometimes making a good deal of money , sometimes none , feasting one day and starving the next . |
| 4 | Walking the Great Views |
| 5 | Then I reread the title : ‘ Walking the Great Views ’ . |
| 6 | It 's OK for the authorities because it 's not them you 're looking at — you wo n't be walking the beat with them . |
| 7 | Sympathetic typifications of Catholics do little to lessen the obvious problem of being attacked while walking the beat . |
| 8 | In 1920 Gide recalls walking the streets of Biskra with Dr Bourget of Lausanne . |
| 9 | When you 're footsore from walking the city streets , make a visit to Roundhay Park , with its landscaped gardens and woods and the Waterloo Lake , where you can hire a boat or go fishing . |
| 10 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
| 11 | It is a very strange experience , walking the corridors of a large company , to hear loud blasts of phasers and the firing of photon torpedoes echoing to and fro from various offices . |
| 12 | McLeish was walking the track , also keeping well to one edge , watching carefully . |
| 13 | I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ . |
| 14 | Walking the Shingle Street strand last week , he suggested that the ‘ RAF used the beach to test a precision bomb against a shelter ’ . |
| 15 | Walking the back nine confirms what all the fuss is about , why Sunday night at the Masters is one of the most dramatic pieces of sporting theatre there can be . |
| 16 | They love walking the dogs on Bude beach , 30 minutes ' drive away . |
| 17 | So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ . |
| 18 | My last memory of Grant is of a frail but determined figure walking the broad streets of Adelaide last October . |
| 19 | As a result , there were even more people walking the corridors than usual . |
| 20 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
| 21 | Mrs Oliver is walking the dog , Alfred has washed and tidied away the tea things while keeping an eye on the shop from the adjoining neat and spotlessly clean flat . |
| 22 | During the day he would cross the bridge to Chelsea to buy old clothes and other cast-offs , walking the streets with his cry of ‘ Old clothes and old hats I 'll buy them ’ , or begging his keep in more fashionable parts from ‘ cooks thinking he was such a nice old man … |
| 23 | Together we 'll be walking the New York Marathon in '91 . |
| 24 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 25 | Working out the yardages means walking the course in advance , picking out points and landmarks , very often trees , but any kind of geographical detail , and then measuring the yards from the point to the green . |
| 26 | Walking the river , without tackle , in the close season is a good thing for many reasons . |
| 27 | Walking the river in the close season , when the bankside and aquatic vegetation has blossomed and the water is running clear and low , is the best time for actually spotting the chub as they go about their daily business . |
| 28 | The result was that the man left walking the beat had little of interest to do by way of responding to requests for emergency services … |
| 29 | The daily , reassuring visit from the patrolling doctor was no more — as if by merely walking the rounds he or she had some magic formula that made us safe . |
| 30 | WALKING THE DOG |