Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few pairs of battered shoes were lined up along an old wooden shelf . |
| 2 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |
| 3 | More parrots were lined up along the shore , skirts hitched to their knees , paddling and screaming in the chilly water . |
| 4 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 5 | The road was very pleasant , and nice peeps were opened out along the shore , those scenes peculiar to this and neighbouring isles ; long flat stretches of heath and sand , and lines of cliff ; and in the pearliest hues the mountains of the north-west of Scotland graced their glowing setting of sunlit cloud and sun-reflecting sea , while the ether was embalmed in shades that partook of many emerald rays . |
| 6 | The thin man was sent back along the ride to the point where it left the northern highway with orders to watch there , while Crane returned to patrol the width of forest between the camp and the Swamp . |
| 7 | In May 1942 , the Eighth Army was dug in along the Gazala line on the defensive . |
| 8 | The statistics of healthy and intelligent childhood were stretched out along the curve of achievement , and only some were allowed to travel through the narrow gate at eleven , towards the golden city . |
| 9 | The one long straggly high street was always smothered in dust in the summer and with mud in the winter when the great stone carts lurched down from the quarries to the ‘ bankers ’ — the place where the stone was stacked up along the shore . |
| 10 | When the train stopped at the all-too-active battlefield in the frozen wastes of the Siberian-Manchurian border , her only hope was to walk back along the railway track to the previous station : |