Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 2 | If the guitar does not play , or buzzes severely along the first few frets from the nut , slacken the rod slightly to remove the crown . |
| 3 | The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory . |
| 4 | Behind the major properties were a number of cottages huddled together in yards or strung out along the lanes . |
| 5 | From the far side of the Carpathians , and the valley of the Rhine , and a drop or two from Constantinople that came westward along the Danube behind the invading Turks . |
| 6 | Of all the German patriotic associations that sprang up along the eastern borders in the 1890s it was the Ostmarkenverein , the Eastern Marches Society founded in 1894 , that was to have the most profound impact on German border society . |
| 7 | You should always be on the look out for extra long pentatonic licks that move horizontally along the fretboard , weaving right through and linking up two or more of the five pentatonic positions . |
| 8 | Ben Gunn had told me his boat was hidden near the white rock , and I found that rock farther along the beach . |
| 9 | Wealthy families were already seeking more desirable surroundings beyond the walls , particularly in the western suburb that stretched all along the road to Westminster . |
| 10 | The light from the copper sun threw long dying shadows from every pebble and fragment of herbage , shadows that travelled fast along the ground like fingers pointing . |
| 11 | It touched the ground at what appeared to be an impossible speed and skidded terrifyingly along the runway amid clouds of dust accompanied by a scraping , nerve-shattering , high-pitched screech . |
| 12 | The fire was not lit and the room did n't seem as cheerful and welcoming as it had the night before ; they broke their fast quickly on warm oat cakes and mulled wine , saddled their horses and rode back along the track to the highway . |
| 13 | She turned her back on the squabbling creatures and crept off along the footpath . |
| 14 | In Europe we have one major set of structures , from Precambrian to Recent , which relate first to plates splitting and colliding approximately along the Atlantic line and to the later sea-floor spreading that produced that ocean as we see it today . |
| 15 | ‘ Run and fetch Tremayne , ’ Mackie told him , and he sprang instantly to his feet and sprinted away along the road to the right , his feet impelled as if by demons . |
| 16 | To train an infant for the first year is comparatively easy , but after that the child begins to resent authority , and the conscientious mother has to be prepared to fight and win all along the line , in matters small and great . |
| 17 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 18 | She paused and peered anxiously along the pathway , which made a dim corridor into the wood , almost like the aisle of a great church , thought Virginia . |
| 19 | They left the shop and headed back along the road , Sammy crawling miserably along behind them . |
| 20 | Films with high or low accident estimates thus additionally included instances of passing a vehicle on a motorway and driving ahead along a curving road . |
| 21 | The trachea were cleaned and cut longitudinally along the dorsal surface and a piece placed under microscopic control in a specially constructed Ussing chamber designed to preserve the curvature of the tissue . |
| 22 | With some difficulty he got the car to start and drove slowly along the middle of the road . |
| 23 | They got back into the car and drove slowly along the rutted , narrow turnoff , until finally Nicolo pointed to a low rise . |
| 24 | He then grabbed the reins and drove back along the road , leaving the wounded post-boy to stagger to the nearest village . |
| 25 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 26 | She patted down the earth in each pot , watered them from a slimy tin , arranged them in a row on the ledge , and darted back along the path to the house . |
| 27 | He put it under his overcoat , gently closed the boot , and tiptoed away along the yellow pavement in search of a yellow garage . |
| 28 | Like a scene from Hawaii Five-O , two- and three-man teams sunk their paddles deep into the warm salt water and paddled hard along the coast for four miles towards the entrance to the Tortugero Canal , an inland waterway running parallel to the coast . |
| 29 | Hug the person or creature , give it your love , and walk on along the forest path . |
| 30 | In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised . |