Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 2 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 7 | More parrots were lined up along the shore , skirts hitched to their knees , paddling and screaming in the chilly water . |
| 8 | A few pairs of battered shoes were lined up along an old wooden shelf . |
| 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 : |
| 11 | My second thought , which did not occur to me until I was crawling back along the floor towards my bed , was that today was the day when I was due to Testify . |
| 12 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |
| 13 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 14 | Casting an agonised glance of appeal at Ludovico , who failed to notice it , she was led off along the terrace , away from the tables and chairs . |
| 15 | In May 1942 , the Eighth Army was dug in along the Gazala line on the defensive . |
| 16 | The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line , only sixty miles to the west of the Nile . |
| 17 | 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 . |