Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the road [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the aargh , just squeezed in and this lad sort of shit himself completely and went zoom right up the road then , well I knew what was gon na happen so I dropped right back and er how he missed him I do n't know , it must of been inches or itches |
| 2 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 3 | The road before looked much like the road behind . |
| 4 | Once outside the house she darted quickly along the road then through a gap in a hedge and the last I saw was the little black figure flitting over the rain-swept grass of a field . |
| 5 | They reached the arcade and then , still surrounded by the bodyguard , ‘ came out into the road again and the party marched round the traffic lights through the dense masses . ’ |
| 6 | As they screeched off down the road again , Ronni felt duly chastened . |
| 7 | Mrs Wright reversed out into the road again and drove off past the church . |
| 8 | He gave her a grim smile as he pulled on to the road again . |
| 9 | Very quickly , however , the three young people began to exert over one another the complex mutual attraction which remained characteristic of their relationship , and more than three weeks passed before Coleridge finally set off on the road back to Stowey . |
| 10 | The man decided to run further across the road rather than go back . |
| 11 | Wait until the driver or the passenger has got out of the car and , as they approach you , quickly reverse back down the road so that you are out of their reach and have room to manoeuvre . |
| 12 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 13 | The Tripodoro is set back from the road about 750 yards from the centre of quiet , easy-going Sportorno . |
| 14 | Nomes scurried down the plank and milled around on the road below , uncertain whether to run or stay . |
| 15 | The pool , situated immediately across the road also has a snack bar , restaurant and sunbeds which are available at a reduced cost . |
| 16 | Blooming great fine statue of p and then you went down to the road where the Wolferton . |
| 17 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 18 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
| 19 | She looked out at the road ahead . |
| 20 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
| 21 | The question was clearly casual , his attention fixed firmly on the road ahead . |
| 22 | MATTHEW HOWE standing back from the road nearby is thought to date from between 1665 and 1700 . |
| 23 | A hare appeared on the opposite verge , quivered for a second , then ran swiftly up the road only to leap sideways out of the path of the approaching French infantry . |
| 24 | ‘ Could we not travel safely on the road now ? ’ she asked cautiously , as they forded yet another stream . |
| 25 | The inhabitants of Stowey for their part were already passing judgement as Coleridge , Southey and Henry Poole set off on the road back to Shurton . |