Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] along the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon three spiders were inching their way along the wall towards a small window on the ground floor . |
| 2 | A group of Salvation Army singers were making their way along the road . |
| 3 | Other rabbits were making their way along the run and Strawberry spoke to several of them , more than once remarking that he would enjoy taking their new friends across the field . |
| 4 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 5 | Willie Bond , the postman , was pushing his bicycle along the road to Nidden , at the end of his last delivery , and in the distance the rector could see Ella vanishing down the alley that led to Lulling Woods and Dotty Harmer 's house . |
| 6 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 7 | ‘ On the summit day it was so hot our main problem was carrying our clothing along the undulating ridge , ’ said Roger . |
| 8 | It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel . |
| 9 | Alexei was barring his progress along the passageway and Rostov sighed inwardly . |