Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [adv prt] along [art] " in BNC.

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1 Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville .
2 They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’
3 At Ballyconneely , with the Twelve Pins at their backs , they went down a track and faced the black Atlantic , left the low-slung car and scrambled out along the headland until they found , amazingly , a concrete pillbox , a relic of the war in which , surely , the Free State had been a neutral ?
4 They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows .
5 She left the citizens of Riverbank to their shouting match and struck off along the trail to the footpath .
6 They left the shop and headed back along the road , Sammy crawling miserably along behind them .
7 Follow the path to the summit of Shining Tor and carry on along the right hand side of the wall to eventually ascend Cats Tor .
8 But at last they reached the top and set out along a ridge under the clear blue sky , valleys running steeply to left and right of them .
9 Jess abandoned all idea of water and ran out along the path and through the gateway with Salt limping behind .
10 We crossed another bridge and walked back along the opposite side : bitter-sweet robin notes ; wheeze of green finch ; ‘ chook , chook ’ of blackbird ; ‘ huit ’ call of chaff inch ; trill of wren .
11 With a screech of brakes , and a squeal of wheels , Bodie reversed into a parking space and shot back along the route he had just taken .
12 At two o'clock Wycliffe collected the dead man 's keys from the duty officer and set out along the wharf .
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