Example sentences of "walk a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be walking a way down South . |
| 2 | We carry on walking a bit . |
| 3 | If you find yourself walking a bit duck footed , concentrate on placing your toes in a pigeon-toed position and you will find that your muscles will soon cooperate . |
| 4 | Just as we do , walking a bit less |
| 5 | And ten to twelve we got out the door , oh I was just glad to get out , you know walking a bit of peace and quiet just , I could of strangled him , little git |
| 6 | walking a household of furniture quarter of a mile up the road ? |
| 7 | It 's no more difficult that walking a tight-rope , sonny ! |
| 8 | He was finding walking a chore so we left him , following the river inland towards its glacial snout source . |
| 9 | Having ensured that a sterile first half ended goalless by making a tremendous reaction save to thwart Olney , Grobbelaar , who has been walking a selection tightrope all season , then allowed a far from ferocious low shot by Daley at the end of a thrilling 50-yard burst to slip under him and into the net . |
| 10 | A leisurely cycle or stroll in the park is not enough — aim to raise your pulse rate significantly by walking a mile or two — or cycling instead of going by car |
| 11 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
| 12 | North-West Thames regional health authority has several districts with significant overspends , while South-East Thames is facing a potential £5m shortfall with many of its 15 districts ‘ walking a tightrope ’ . |
| 13 | In its report on Nigel Lawson 's last Budget earlier this year , the TCSC said the Chancellor was walking a tightrope , with inflation on one side and recession on the other . |
| 14 | It therefore looks as though a decade in which her political nerves had always been stretched was succeeded by a dangerous level of confidence when the situation became apparently so much safer ; she was no longer walking a tightrope , and she now walked too boldly on the ground . |
| 15 | ‘ The market in New York is walking a tightrope between a recovery that is too weak and one that is too strong . |
| 16 | Of course , the tutor-organisers of this ( as of any ) period were well aware that in trying to serve the voluntary movement they were walking a tightrope between doing too much , so depriving branch members of their rightful participation in and control of affairs , and doing too little , so appearing idle and inefficient . |
| 17 | Souness walking a tightrope |
| 18 | Hurlock , already booked by referee David Elleray , was walking a tightrope as Southampton battled to quell Forest 's fire . |
| 19 | It 's like walking a tightrope in size-15 wellies . |
| 20 | Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI . |
| 21 | A male boss working with this many women is walking a tightrope . |
| 22 | She sometimes felt she was walking a tightrope , wanting to be friendly with Therese , and yet terrified of upsetting Karl . |
| 23 | He 'll be walking a tightrope trying to keep the farm profitable and respond to those pressures . |
| 24 | But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope . |
| 25 | There is a strange grafted conjunction between a laburnum and a pink cytisus ( best avoided ) , and a fernery in a secret gully reached by walking a gangplank over a rushing rivulet . |
| 26 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 27 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 28 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 29 | You should be armed with a spade when walking a holding , and examine the topsoil in every field for soil structure and life . |
| 30 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |