Example sentences of "walked [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting the wood he walked for hours , resting after spotting potato-pickers and distant houses . |
| 2 | We walked for a mile or so , easily outpacing the vehicle which was soon just a pair of yellow lights back down the valley . |
| 3 | We walked for hours about the streets of Notting Hill and talked and talked . |
| 4 | I walked for miles exploring Montreal and enjoyed the view from Mount Royal overlooking the city and the great sweep of the St Lawrence River . |
| 5 | The patron saint of Tui is San Télmo , he of the blue discharge on pointed objects in electric storms , and from the cathedral you have a tranquil view over the Mińo to Valença in Portugal , to where we walked for lunch across the iron bridge built by Eiffel . |
| 6 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 8 | They stayed in a pub , near Penmaen Pool , and walked for miles and miles each day . |
| 9 | The snow was beginning to turn to rain next morning and , although the ground was white right to the shores , we all went ashore and walked for several hours . |
| 10 | She walked for ten minutes , and then she sat down , in front of one of the less dicey looking cafés , and ordered herself a Coca Cola . |
| 11 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 12 | We walked for an hour without passing a single habitation . |
| 13 | They walked for miles on the hilltops in the strong clean wind , alone with the birds and the sheep . |
| 14 | I came back into the house soon afterwards , but Emily walked for an hour or two in the rain with her dog , Keeper . |
| 15 | We were delighted to be on land again , and while the men looked for a river or a lake , I walked for about a kilometre away from the beach . |
| 16 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
| 17 | One woman walked for an hour through the snow to catch the bus to Skipton , waited for three and a half hours to meet Hannah , and still went home smiling . |
| 18 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 19 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 20 | We walked for quite a long time and covered a good deal of ground . |
| 21 | They walked for about an hour before arriving at their destination . |
| 22 | On Saturday she again walked for some hours around and about the tree-lined , wide , clean streets of the spa town with its artistic colonnade and its many curative springs . |
| 23 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 24 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 25 | We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day . |
| 26 | She walked as if she were a queen . |
| 27 | And she walked as if she knew where she was going . |
| 28 | He walked through the mountains for seventy-two hours after escaping . |
| 29 | As we walked through the hills we saw several large herds of long-horned cattle , guarded by warriors called morani who were stern but not unfriendly , and brightly decorated , like our guide , with their faces painted and hair thick with ochre . |
| 30 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |