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

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1 Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker .
2 The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans .
3 Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate .
4 because I just think it would , it 's so important to get that bit , that bit goes along with the all the application bit , if we tie those two up together
5 Oh yes , I was gon na say , I think convincing is is another word that goes along with the general ambience of what influencing is about .
6 It goes along with the common complaint that there are areas and methods of serious investigation which are just not touched by scholastic doctrines .
7 Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board .
8 She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle , avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage .
9 They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage .
10 It is a mistake , I submit , to go along with the Dominican Matthew Fox in denying the concepts of the Fall and sin .
11 They refuse to go along with the current vogues to which the impressionable Continentals pander .
12 In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns .
13 What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper .
14 We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage .
15 It is easier to go along with the false cheerfulness .
16 It is just a matter of how you can build up the Kuwaiti nationality to go along with the growing community in the country and we were just a developing country .
17 While Judith , Rachel and Karen are sure their partners are happy to go along with the little alterations they try to make , Zelda says that interfering too much can prove to be very dangerous to a relationship .
18 However , she was prepared to go along with the advisory teacher 's point of view in the sessions and reassured herself concerning her own fears by using whole-class lessons to reinforce what she felt pupils should have discovered .
19 If you would like to help in any way , or would like to go along on the next trip in September , contact Keith Taylor on 1252 29806 .
20 ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year .
21 ‘ I 've always thought of the guitar as another voice , so I start with a voice , singing along with the vocal , and from time to time you can hear a place where other voices would come in , like backing harmonies , which then become part of it .
22 Mum is singing along with the last hymn .
23 We were early for band call and , except for a gap-toothed , long-haired hippie groping along in the opposite direction , seemed to be alone .
24 And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading .
25 ‘ Acid house was nothing to what 's in store , ’ he says , and Danny nods excitedly in agreement : ‘ Who knows what 's going to come along in the next few years ? ’
26 Not all of the attributes of God that he intended to pass along to the human race were present in Adam , eg God has a mother 's heart .
27 They waited for the priest to pass along with the thin wafer of bread and while they did so their hands were like this , cupped and raised in a gesture that might be offering or receiving .
28 There is a problem here in that much of the certainty and confidence with which the term has been used have collapsed along with the secure life-time employment which characterized industrial capitalism .
29 a passenger seat with a ‘ relax ’ setting in which the cushion reclines along with the backrest to provide optimum comfort
30 This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years .
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