Example sentences of "along [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was perfectly safe for them to cross , ’ said Mr Hubbard , ‘ but they did not take account of this car which came hurtling along through these red lights . |
| 2 | steel stock holder there , there is in fact er , a , a wood saw , there 's also a shed manufacturer and also a clear waste of Thetford also uses that , there are large houses , erm in there and all that traffic has to trundle along through residential areas , again onto er onto public routes , er indeed also in fact Pengate Road is very unattractive looking er settlement , if I can use that expression , so for Weeting my proposals would in fact disguise that by embankment and by tree planting , in fact I think that Weeting would gain considerably and it 's these sort of things which we will press upon your vote to draw their attention not just the |
| 3 | And so gently , uncertainly , yet doggedly , he makes his way along through this day as , we must suppose , through the whole of his life thus far . |
| 4 | Anyone who wishes to have their bike security marked should pop along between 10 a.m. and 12 noon . |
| 5 | It was after the first snow and I followed the clanging ploughs up the Dale , bumping along between high white mounds till I reached old Mr Stokill 's gate . |
| 6 | Balbindor treated Father and me all along as complete fools . |
| 7 | I went along as Central Fire Controller ( CFC ) however , I sat in the nose for take-off , which was very exciting ! |
| 8 | It goes along for twelve months . |
| 9 | Take your governing body licence along for good measure . |
| 10 | ‘ George Duffield let her breeze along for six furlongs on Saturday morning and she just flew . |
| 11 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 12 | We plod along for two or three decades with the occasional recording of individual sonatas and then along comes a centenary year and all and sundry are in on the act at the same time . |
| 13 | Balbinder was always pleased to come along for these sessions , to play with my children 's toys and run in the garden . |
| 14 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 15 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |
| 16 | His premiership appeared not so much to be running out as running down , Few believed that when he came back in the autumn he would be able to do more than coast gently and desultorily along for another six months . |
| 17 | Write to jog them along after three months . |
| 18 | will be along after this . |
| 19 | ‘ You park your backside in that chair along of old Mother Scutt and watch how my little nurse finishes me leg real lovely . |
| 20 | Shot in an eerie , aqueous light , the scenes in the submarine rig are fraught , cramped and dangerous , in the tradition of The Boat , the diving scenes — men swimming in slow-motion or submersibles , magically lit , gliding along like ancient chariots — are steeped in silent mystery . |
| 21 | Behind us , loping along like two white wolves , trotted Corin and Alleyn , seemingly oblivious to the miles we covered , padding silently behind our horses without murmur or protest . |
| 22 | A contemporary account des-cribes children " with their hands and feet on the black , dusty ground and a chain about their body , creep and drag along like four footed beasts , heavy loads of the dirty mineral through ways almost impassable to the curious observer " . |
| 23 | There would have been riots if we had let thousands of kids come along like that , ’ said Waterman . |
| 24 | ‘ We can not keep muddling along like this forever . |
| 25 | She thought she would have to hold on extremely tightly if they were to go any faster , but she thought it was a thrilling , intoxicating sensation to be borne along like this . |
| 26 | She did n't mind if he said nothing at all , as long as they could walk along like this under a starlit sky , arm in arm forever . |
| 27 | We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale . |
| 28 | Mirrored walls are obviously useful ; so is good lighting — particularly uplights in corners — and anything that takes the eye out and along like diagonal patterns , trellis , pale colours , to add a sense of perspective . |
| 29 | He changed taxis twice within three blocks , keeping a careful eye on the black Plymouth sedan which cruised sedately along behind both vehicles . |
| 30 | We were screened from the wild birds as we hurried along behind high earth banks planted with willow . |