Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] road " in BNC.
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1 | The lane ran between high banks all the way down to the big road — and the railway . |
2 | From here , farm roads and lanes give an easy passage down to the main road and the Hill Inn . |
3 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
4 | So I 'm just , I 'll walk down , how far is it from here down to the main road along the road ? |
5 | 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 |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I 'll walk up to the main road . |
8 | 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 ! ’ |
9 | She went on out to the main road . |
10 | This seemed reasonable , so reluctantly Sophie got in his car and sat in silence as he drove out to the main road . |
11 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
12 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
13 | ‘ How long before we get back to the proper road ? ’ |
14 | Finally he drove back to the main road . |
15 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
16 | For a short run , I usually end at Westsandwick , taking the loop road through the township and back to the main road . |
17 | Monica had drifted half-way back to the main road , apparently expecting Alice not to reappear . |
18 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |
19 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
20 | It could n't go forward , but reversed slowly down the lane , turned around in a field gateway and headed back to the main road . |
21 | ‘ I remember getting in the car and driving through the village back to the main road … but … nothing else . ’ |
22 | The box at Marske-in-Swaledale , which turns its blank stainless steel back to the main road , is a particularly sore thumb . |
23 | She walked away from the rectory , up Once Hill and then on to the narrow road that wound , eventually , to Badstoneleigh . |
24 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
25 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
26 | Tom hesitated for a moment and then walked hurriedly on to the small road back towards the artist 's shop . |
27 | He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic . |
28 | I ran to the T-junction on to the main road . |
29 | He fell silent as he wrestled the van round a corner and on to the main road . |
30 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |