Example sentences of "were [v-ing] along [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were driving along the coast road to Sligo , beside flat fields . |
| 2 | We were walking along the promenade feeling really good in our best gear , when I looked down at my feet . |
| 3 | They were walking along the shore , arms linked against the wind , when he said . |
| 4 | We were walking along the sea wall at Fries ton in Lincolnshire , possibly the coldest place in England that day ( we learned later ) . |
| 5 | We were walking along the front towards the Palace Pier when she took my arm . |
| 6 | Other skiers who were walking along the path above us towards Chamonix watched in disbelief . |
| 7 | They wore their Sunday black and were climbing along the path over the hill , girding it as if with an emblematic mourning ribbon . |
| 8 | But I was dealing with characters who were gliding along the surface of Tuscany , a beguiling countryside which they thought of as an extension of England . |
| 9 | ‘ Let's go into the garden , ’ he said tersely , and a few moments later they were gliding along the path that wound down to the river 's edge , their way lit by a bright moon that stretched a blue path towards them across the water . |
| 10 | By 5,000BC men were living along the coast ; they hunted and gathered mussels . |
| 11 | Then , with Alexander leading the way , Lisa and Leo were hurrying along the corridor to the pillaged cupboard . |
| 12 | Helen and Nicola were moving along the street . |
| 13 | The families of guests were drifting along the river bank towards Donald Steuart 's a quarter of a mile upstream . |
| 14 | Later , when we were riding along the road , I said , ‘ The last time we were in Oxford , I heard some talk in the town . |
| 15 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 16 | We were early for the service at Chelsea Register Office , so we were riding along the Embankment . |
| 17 | The lights were travelling along the road . |
| 18 | They were travelling along the country lanes by now , and the hum of the engine was soothing . |
| 19 | And there where you were running al , along with we were running along the chimney with burning la , to warm us hands . |
| 20 | The two boats were running along the coastline on almost parallel courses , Ewen close in , perforce following the jagged line of the shore , and our boat ( I found later that she was called Sea Otter ) on a straight course some way out . |
| 21 | Ace waved her gun , frying a swathe of the creatures that were advancing along the wall on Defries 's side of the cabin . |
| 22 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 23 | Lights blazing , their car cannoned off the kerb , tyres squealing in protest , then they were roaring along the alley . |
| 24 | It was a misty Sunday morning and we were bumping along the Ridge Way , near Wantage . |
| 25 | Ward 's reply was lost in the sound of the engine , and when I opened my eyes again we were bumping along the bank of what looked like an old Inca canal . |