Example sentences of "[vb past] along [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 2 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 3 | The mass of promenaders bulged along in the committee 's wake , creating some difficulty as they turned into the narrow High Street and into Albion Street . |
| 4 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 5 | Together they rode along in the dark , Tess holding on to Alec . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's a lovely little ride , that one , ’ Dennis called out to her as they rode along in the string . |
| 7 | Beside the boat-house a jetty thrust out into the water , and from this a weedy , once-gravelled path led along above the beach to the stone archway which was the garden gate of Taigh na Tuir . |
| 8 | Staying close to the wooden wall , he crept along between the shed and the hedge . |
| 9 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 10 | In so far as Preobrazhensky claimed that there was a law of primitive socialist accumulation in the Soviet economy which operated along with the law of value , he denied that there could be one , single , regulator for the whole economy . |
| 11 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 12 | As I stood on the walkway , the water level reached above my knees , and I waded along beside the wall in the direction of the lower door and the river . |
| 13 | I staggered along with the baby and the heavy bag , and , of course , Elaine was n't there . |
| 14 | ‘ The poor old souls like to know what one 's doing , ’ he explained to Jannie , as they jerked along in the traffic stream between aunt and aunt . |
| 15 | It bounced along above the pushchair , flashing gold , red and silver in the sunshine . |
| 16 | There is a definite air of mystery around The Black Dog — helped along by the fact that their records have often been near-impossible to find . |
| 17 | Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again . |
| 18 | English Shakespeare Company , Darlington Civic Theatre A RATHER timid audience still shaken from the English Shakespeare Company 's new version of Macbeth ventured along to the opening night of the old romantic favourite Twelfth Night , apprehensive at what was in store this time around . |
| 19 | She even hummed along with the radio as she rattled down the motorway , something she had n't felt like doing in a long time . |
| 20 | I moved along past the drawings to look at a blurred water-colour with a wild smudge of cobalt in the centre . |
| 21 | Rory straightened his tie , and with his whisky still burning in his throat , and now his stomach too , he moved along to the gap in the curtains and slid through , back into the ballroom , where people sat drinking at long wooden tables and groups of dancers went whirling round in complicated , ever-changing patterns , all flowing dresses and clasping hands and big red sweaty faces and white shirts and ties and narrow trousers or — even worse — kilts . |
| 22 | I moved along to the patio window . |
| 23 | Giles-the-murderer , who had been in the coffee shop , strolled along into the mêlée and started being frightfully nice to old ladies . |
| 24 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 25 | He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees . |
| 26 | Mulling it over as she strolled along in the morning sunshine , passed occasionally by a battered Renault or a woman on a pushbike with a basket of baguettes swinging from the handlebars , Melissa felt more and more uneasy at her friend 's obvious emotional commitment to Bonard . |
| 27 | We were too hot to take a cab , so we just sauntered along with the crowds . |
| 28 | I sauntered along to the control area , trying to be at ease . |
| 29 | He sidled along towards the panels where , with any luck , Angalo was hiding . |
| 30 | Praying , as she sidled along to the changing-room , that no one would ever know how utterly wrong she had been … |