Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She turned her back on the squabbling creatures and crept off along the footpath . |
| 5 | They left the shop and headed back along the road , Sammy crawling miserably along behind them . |
| 6 | He then grabbed the reins and drove back along the road , leaving the wounded post-boy to stagger to the nearest village . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Karl turned and walked back along the other side of the garden , although this time Erika did not draw his attention to the words of Josef Stalin paying tribute to glorious workers , doctors , nurses , and so on . |
| 10 | We crossed another bridge and walked back along the opposite side : bitter-sweet robin notes ; wheeze of green finch ; ‘ chook , chook ’ of blackbird ; ‘ huit ’ call of chaff inch ; trill of wren . |
| 11 | At Ballyconneely , with the Twelve Pins at their backs , they went down a track and faced the black Atlantic , left the low-slung car and scrambled out along the headland until they found , amazingly , a concrete pillbox , a relic of the war in which , surely , the Free State had been a neutral ? |
| 12 | He opened his eyes , and looked back along the ship . |
| 13 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 14 | They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's go , girl , ’ he said and went back along the street . |
| 16 | To save time , Trent propped the gun against a palm , draping the bandoleer over the barrel , and ran out along the millionaire 's dock . |
| 17 | Jess abandoned all idea of water and ran out along the path and through the gateway with Salt limping behind . |
| 18 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 19 | Cruella Baines grunted and waddled off along the line of windows , her steel bangles rattling against her gigantic thighs . |
| 20 | With a screech of brakes , and a squeal of wheels , Bodie reversed into a parking space and shot back along the route he had just taken . |
| 21 | She left the citizens of Riverbank to their shouting match and struck off along the trail to the footpath . |
| 22 | But at last they reached the top and set out along a ridge under the clear blue sky , valleys running steeply to left and right of them . |
| 23 | So the next morning at dawn the poor wife took her baby in her arms and set out along the shore . |
| 24 | At two o'clock Wycliffe collected the dead man 's keys from the duty officer and set out along the wharf . |
| 25 | Scrambled eggs again , and coffee , then I made a thermos of tea , pushed that , with a packet of biscuits , into the pocket of my anorak , and set off along the cliff path . |
| 26 | So we gritted our teeth and set off along the Pyg-motorway past the army 's blasted and unforgivable folly , writhing and frothing and swearing and laughing aghast — the vapours thickening the while , so that when we looked down from Bwlch Moch , Llydaw was rimless , leaden obscurity and our hair mist-beaded like grizzled Rastafarians . |
| 27 | They took the goose between them and set off along the line that shone silver in the moonlight . |
| 28 | She dressed quickly , put on rubber boots and a waterproof , and set off along the footpath leading to Benbury Woods . |
| 29 | I decided it was time to look into the Bunker properly , and set off along the bank at a jog , swinging round the southernmost dune towards the old pillbox . |
| 30 | She jumped to her feet , and hurried back along the road to Weatherbury . |