Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 2 | As you will have noticed , the strategies we have reviewed have been operating back along the stress cycle ( as shown in Figure 1 on page 70 ) at points nearer and nearer the source . |
| 3 | Even when trap lines are laid down along the hunting paths of a relatively specialized predator like the barn owl , there may be considerable differences in species proportions represented in the two assemblages . |
| 4 | That area should now be hived off along the line delineated in Map B. |
| 5 | The change in status means that control of the ancient woodlands is to be taken out of the hands of the Forestry Commission , who were opposed to the move , and a new governing body is to be set up along the lines of the Norfolk Broads Authority . |
| 6 | Most visitors to the Games will be put up along the coast outside the city and COBB have had to hire 10 luxury liners to be moored in Barcelona 's harbour , to provide 30,000 extra rooms for sponsors and their guests . |
| 7 | The fleet should then be spread out along the line and life will be much easier for everyone . |
| 8 | When the firing squad finally arrives , six men in blindfolds will be strung out along the prison wall : Freddie Martin , Frank Haffey , Stewart Kennedy , Jim Blyth , Alan Rough and Jim Leighton , you have one final wish . |
| 9 | For example , if your wall units do n't meet the ceiling , little-used dishes can be rowed up along the tops , or you could build extra cupboards in the gap . |
| 10 | Special wooden footpath signs have been put up along the route . |
| 11 | Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore . |
| 12 | The sea has been forced out to sea , the beaches have been forced out along the coast . |
| 13 | In some snakes the fangs are hinged and are folded back along the roof of the mouth ; when the snake is about to strike , the fangs flip forward into their striking position . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 15 | In view of the evaporation of the objections of the BMA and a large number of doctors to the Government 's policy , does my hon. Friend agree that the debate is being drawn up along the following lines , with the Confederation of Health Service Employees , the National Union of Public Employees and the Labour party on one side and the Government , the taxpayers and the patients on the other ? |
| 16 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 17 | The road was very pleasant , and nice peeps were opened out along the shore , those scenes peculiar to this and neighbouring isles ; long flat stretches of heath and sand , and lines of cliff ; and in the pearliest hues the mountains of the north-west of Scotland graced their glowing setting of sunlit cloud and sun-reflecting sea , while the ether was embalmed in shades that partook of many emerald rays . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The statistics of healthy and intelligent childhood were stretched out along the curve of achievement , and only some were allowed to travel through the narrow gate at eleven , towards the golden city . |
| 20 | Second , four more UDCs were set up along the lines of those in Liverpool and London . |
| 21 | More parrots were lined up along the shore , skirts hitched to their knees , paddling and screaming in the chilly water . |
| 22 | A few pairs of battered shoes were lined up along an old wooden shelf . |
| 23 | Food was being sent in along the republic 's only rail link with Georgia . |
| 24 | This is carried out along the following lines : Working Space . |
| 25 | If a stimulus is below a certain intensity , the threshold , no impulse is set off along the fibre . |
| 26 | Well I 'll be done because I usually go for the paper Rose , quite often Harvey 's said she 's coming out along the High Street five past at five past eight on a Monday morning . |
| 27 | The one long straggly high street was always smothered in dust in the summer and with mud in the winter when the great stone carts lurched down from the quarries to the ‘ bankers ’ — the place where the stone was stacked up along the shore . |
| 28 | When the train stopped at the all-too-active battlefield in the frozen wastes of the Siberian-Manchurian border , her only hope was to walk back along the railway track to the previous station : |
| 29 | My second thought , which did not occur to me until I was crawling back along the floor towards my bed , was that today was the day when I was due to Testify . |
| 30 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |