Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lissa pressed her fingertips to the window-pane , as though in some way that would keep him near to her , but the ambulance moved off along the road and the fragile connection was severed . |
| 2 | A bright red weal sprang up along the point of impact , a blaze of angry colour , and she watched it slowly spread , her breath rasping in her throat , her chest heaving raggedly . |
| 3 | Hari hurried back along the street anxious to get home , it was turning colder and the night was closing in . |
| 4 | Simon looked back along the deserted promenade . |
| 5 | Burun was in one of them , sitting with his back to the side pillar , his booted feet stretched out along the sill so that he was perched above a sheer drop to the marble-floored hallway below . |
| 6 | Its available agricultural land , the Tenantry Laines spread out along the downland valleys , was largely in the form of scattered individual strips and , although attempts were made to consolidate holdings in the 1780s , these were still on a small scale . |
| 7 | The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance . |
| 8 | Local protest groups including Clevelandbased NEON sprang up along the length of the proposed line as the campaign against the pylons grew . |
| 9 | ‘ Well met , Lord , ’ he gasped as his group trooped out along the ramparts . |
| 10 | By pitching the ball up and bowling in the channel he makes his opponent hit back along the line of the approaching delivery and play the ball into the ‘ V ’ — the arc of the field which lies between extra cover on the off side and a straightish mid-wicket on the leg side . |
| 11 | Suddenly a cry went up along the line . |
| 12 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 13 | Luke Mallen walked out along the strip of headland that led to Meer 's Point and stood with Tom Carey as he fished . |
| 14 | In 1966 both sides recalled their ambassadors , and in 1969 open military hostilities broke out along the Ussuri river , which marks the Sino-Soviet border in Siberia . |
| 15 | Owen looked out along the works . |
| 16 | Philip ran back along the ride with Lee . |
| 17 | The bearer set off along the wide , dusty street . |
| 18 | The Sierra Leone government promised the AfDB there would be strict environmental protection measures , but despite such assurances , loggers , farmers and charcoal-burners moved in along the new road , eating into the rainforest . |
| 19 | This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi . |
| 20 | ‘ Serves you right ! ’ shouted Dick , and snatching up the rope raced off along the path , closely followed by Chuck . |
| 21 | Dirt and trees slipped down the cliff face the far side of the river , and all day long our remote valley echoed with the crunch and grind of bulldozers and their cautionary whistles , as they backed up to take another bite out of the shale piled up along the edge of the road . |
| 22 | From here you can see the Old Town , the New Town and the district of Vyšehrad stretched out along the other side of the Vltava River . |
| 23 | Dot stroked her mother 's other white leg stretched out along the bed , with the varnish drying on the toes now like five scarlet flames . |
| 24 | When Harry asked if ‘ Mrs Molly Diamond ’ was at home , the youth slouched back along the passage , shouted ‘ Ma ’ once at the top of his voice , then carried on without change of pace towards a dismantled motorcycle Harry could see beyond the back door . |
| 25 | Brooding , Wycliffe walked back along the wharf to join Kersey in search of lunch . |
| 26 | Gradually the water emptied of departing traffic and the Avignon glided on along the muddy river in the deep silence of a blistering noontide . |
| 27 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 28 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards Cinzia turned off along an unpaved minor road . |
| 30 | At the far end was a small hall with tables and chairs piled up along the walls . |