Example sentences of "through the village " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 2 | On my way through the village I met a member of the French Commando . |
| 3 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 4 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 5 | The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne . |
| 6 | The activity on the road on the other side of the orchard had increased , there were troops and the occasional vehicle moving up and through the village followed by the usual German mortaring of the road and orchard . |
| 7 | Later in the day the shelling ceased so Taff and I were able to get his kit together and make our way through the village to the farm and No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 8 | Troops were moving through the village heading in the direction of the attack area and the artillery fire had increased in support of the attack , the usual odd shell or two dropping short causing casualties among the troops moving along the road . |
| 9 | The attack on the village along the road was still going on , wounded and dead Commandos were being placed against the walls of the cobbled farmyard , waiting their turn as the jeeps ferried to and fro through the village . |
| 10 | Yesterday evening I went through the village and along the road leading to the village that had been attacked on the evening of the 12th June . |
| 11 | I turned and left the farm and made my way through the village to Brigade H.Q |
| 12 | I was standing outside Brigade H.Q when the reinforcements marched through the village . |
| 13 | The first evening we arrived , after digging in , a few of us from Brigade H.Q took a walk through the village and found the local café . |
| 14 | One evening as I was walking through the village , I heard a voice coming from the gable end of a cottage , ‘ Bonsoir , Monsieur . |
| 15 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
| 16 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 17 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 18 | Passing through Amfreville we meet part of 4 Commando Brigade marching through the village to take up new positions near the village of Troarn , a short distance from 1st Commando Brigade area . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd think people would have heed , but no heed , never any heed , no care for anybody else , ’ he complained as he drove ; but before the bridge he startled them by driving the car into the space in front of McCabe 's and announcing that they would walk the rest of the way through the village . |
| 20 | After one outbreak of fighting , the main road running through the village of Rewasan was littered with bricks and stones . |
| 21 | Travelling south along the lake-side road , through the village of Bowness ( rightly pronounced Bowness by the locals , and Boness by nearly everybody else ) , the scenery becomes more dramatic , the villas more sparsely spaced and hidden among the maturity of their Edwardian planting . |
| 22 | However , little by little , as Aspreys sold more and more of his artefacts , so Ernest bought up more and more land along the cliff and through the village . |
| 23 | On the way through the village , nightingales were still busy in woods close by . |
| 24 | We turned back through the village again and up to Claro . |
| 25 | Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge . |
| 26 | Wander through the village and along the lakeside promenade , and you come to the small Schafbergbahn railway , which winds its way to the top of the Schafberg mountain behind the village . |
| 27 | This modest stream flows east through the village of Upper Slaughter , before joining the Windrush . |
| 28 | Presteigne [ ramp off the main road through the village ] , Knighton and Llandrindod Wells all have 12ft wide 4ft high mini ramps . |
| 29 | Through the village , the road into Barbondale rises sharply before contouring for a level mile along the side of Barbon Low Fell , new plantings of conifers permitting only glimpses of Barbon Manor high on the left . |
| 30 | Infuriated by the recent lorry invasion thundering through the village to tip rubble , locals have banded together to fight the company . |