Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constance felt let down but , more , she was overcome with indignant self-pity as she slowly cycled back along the drive that linked the Hall to the main road . |
| 2 | A solid snake of people still wound back along the north shore of the loch . |
| 3 | Then the instrument was relaid with the crosshead towards the west so that the lengthening shadow gradually moved back along the hour marks to the twelfth . |
| 4 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |
| 5 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 6 | The cuffs of his cream silk shirt were still linked , the discreet but expensive tie still knotted at his neck ; his only concession to the sun was that his light blue blazer was carefully laid out along the back seat . |
| 7 | Stones were also set up along the Great North Road in 1708 , but the first true milestone to be set up in Britain since Roman times was that at Trumpington , just outside Cambridge , in 1727 , where it is still to be seen . |
| 8 | This is one of the survivors of the many mills formerly strung out along the Painswick Stream and probably took its name from the Damsell family who lived in the area during the 14th and 15th centuries . |
| 9 | She had come rather out of her way and now walked back along a square where a learned society had its premises . |
| 10 | Its mile-long street , continuously built up along the side facing the loch from which it gets its name , has many shops , banks , garages , hotels and guest houses , patronised by customers from a wide area and by the touring motorists who pass through and invariably halt . |
| 11 | By night the lava lake presents an unearthly sight , with great slabs of dark , solidified crust shifting about slowly on the surface , allowing the bright lava underneath to gleam through along the cracks between slabs . |
| 12 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 13 | The green lawns were bright and cut close , the thickets of daffodils had not quite died down along the edges of the drive . |
| 14 | Full of excited anticipation , she caught an overnight train , managed to get a taxi to turn out at the crack of dawn to take her to Morfa , then set out along the causeway to Brynteg . |
| 15 | He examined the gallery , then set off along the left-hand corridor where the men 's bedrooms were . |
| 16 | Brought them down here and then gone off along the cliff path with them . |
| 17 | I followed the main road up the mountain leading west , then struck off along an old mule track . |
| 18 | The corporate plan is therefore built up along the same lines as the organisational hierarchy . |
| 19 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |