Example sentences of "travelled [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The covers were very worn , as if it had been travelled about a good deal , and on the fly leaf was written ‘ Journal 1841 ’ and then , in a different coloured ink , ‘ And 1842 ’ and then , below that , carefully , ‘ Emily Brent ’ . |
| 2 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 3 | I have n't travelled with a maid for years . |
| 4 | It looks like he may have travelled under an assumed name , God knows why . ’ |
| 5 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 6 | " There , " he said at last , when he 'd travelled in a half-circle . |
| 7 | He never supposed a bus might recur in his life , to be travelled in a second time , with a recognisable darn in its upholstery . |
| 8 | If you have travelled in an aeroplane at 35 000 feet or so then you will have noticed that the sky looks a much darker blue than at sea-level . |
| 9 | How many have ever travelled on a train ? |
| 10 | I 've just travelled on a train that has had its inside scraped and engraved with the upside-down , sideways , capitals language of fanatics of the football game . |
| 11 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 12 | He recalled that only last Friday Diana had travelled to a Humberside hospice . |
| 13 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 14 | Most examination papers contain practical problems such as fitting furniture into a room making use of scale drawings , or questions on practical experiments , e.g. " Draw a graph from the table which shows the distance travelled by a clockwork car for different numbers of turns of the key " . |