Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] road " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 2 | But they stayed the longest in Baldersdale , apart from me of course , and eventually retired down to Hunderthwaite , down near the main road . |
| 3 | The Sierra Leone government promised the AfDB there would be strict environmental protection measures , but despite such assurances , loggers , farmers and charcoal-burners moved in along the new road , eating into the rainforest . |
| 4 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 5 | The lane ran between high banks all the way down to the big road — and the railway . |
| 6 | From here , farm roads and lanes give an easy passage down to the main road and the Hill Inn . |
| 7 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 8 | So I 'm just , I 'll walk down , how far is it from here down to the main road along the road ? |
| 9 | We were down at the main road . |
| 10 | Engines roaring , it swooped in to land , braking hard as its wheels touched the wide runway which was crossed halfway along by the single road connecting the British colony to the Spanish mainland . |
| 11 | His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ . |
| 12 | The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance . |
| 13 | A brief halt at the Military Police Post to book out with the Belgian Military Policeman on duty , and they are off along the main road into Corlu . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 16 | He went outside , shutting the large doors silently and started off down the concrete road . |
| 17 | The juggernaut started with a cough and splutter , was thrown into gear and began to move off down the narrow road . |
| 18 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |
| 19 | A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle . |
| 20 | The highway , which links up with the old road south of Charikar , avoids mujahedin territory and and passes through a region where the Kabul regime has concluded deals with local guerrilla commanders . |
| 21 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 22 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 23 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 24 | There was the hum of cars up on the main road . |
| 25 | The cottage next door to this on the right , it 's got a ghastly fake wishing well in the front garden , belongs to the chap who runs the garage up on the main road , Joe Fenniwick and his wife . |
| 26 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 27 | It is a ten-minute ride to the road , first on a narrow path along the side of a field of parched maize and groundnuts , then down across the stream , up the smooth rounded granite and along the top , passing by my neighbour 's home , down round her fields under the trees and up to the tarred road . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll walk up to the main road . |
| 29 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 30 | The new owner of Low Birk Hatt digging out for the new road |