Example sentences of "[verb] along [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 2 | Also , the pressure on ministers to hustle along with the removal of lead may subside after a general election . |
| 3 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 4 | The idea burst into her mind , a sudden radiant solution , that she could rush along to the pet shop at lunchtime and apologize , ask him to forgive her and make everything all right . |
| 5 | In fact , contrary to a persistent theme in neoclassical economics , competition between giant ‘ dominant firms ’ is often fiercer than the competition between small enterprises in unconcentrated markets : increasing scale often goes along with the development of a keener rationality of profit . |
| 6 | Whether this chairman goes along with the president or not may turn on many factors , but bargaining is very likely to play a part . |
| 7 | It usually goes along with the claim that the ‘ technical ’ division of labour , i.e. the actual distribution of tasks , is in some sense subordinate to the social division . |
| 8 | Well , immediately on the left there 's a door an and the hall goes along by the path that you , you come up to that door . |
| 9 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 10 | Some of the skinheads I 've met admit to having ‘ gone through ’ one or other of the parties of the extreme right , but , after a brief commitment , the enthusiasm tends to lapse along with the membership . |
| 11 | The mass of promenaders bulged along in the committee 's wake , creating some difficulty as they turned into the narrow High Street and into Albion Street . |
| 12 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 13 | And then I 'm hobbling along into the bathroom . |
| 14 | Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls . |
| 15 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 16 | Together they rode along in the dark , Tess holding on to Alec . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's a lovely little ride , that one , ’ Dennis called out to her as they rode along in the string . |
| 18 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 19 | Beside the boat-house a jetty thrust out into the water , and from this a weedy , once-gravelled path led along above the beach to the stone archway which was the garden gate of Taigh na Tuir . |
| 20 | Staying close to the wooden wall , he crept along between the shed and the hedge . |
| 21 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 22 | In so far as Preobrazhensky claimed that there was a law of primitive socialist accumulation in the Soviet economy which operated along with the law of value , he denied that there could be one , single , regulator for the whole economy . |
| 23 | Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … . |
| 24 | Darlington Council refused to go along with the plan but Miss Carter has revived the campaign this week as a planning application emerged wanting to put a food kiosk in the car park . |
| 25 | He found it hard enough to persuade senior officers to go along with the peace settlement . |
| 26 | While West Germany , for example , was willing to go along with the proposal ( but only if there was a joint system of ECSC subsidy financing ) , the net importers of coal within the Six — France , Italy and the Netherlands — were totally hostile to the notion of national contributions to a joint financing policy . |
| 27 | The CPP , which was happy to go along with the election , seems averse to the idea of losing it . |
| 28 | The subject is under strong social pressure to go along with the hypnotist ; he has agreed in good faith to be hypnotised , after all , and is determined to carry out the hypnotist 's suggestions . |
| 29 | She says she 's determined to go along with the system , so no one can say she bucked it . |
| 30 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |