Example sentences of "travelling in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 2 | TRAVELLING IN A NEW DIRECTION |
| 3 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 4 | Now the right leg is thrust out with the foot travelling in a straight line towards the opponent . |
| 5 | IF you 're travelling in a dirty car today the chances are it 's being driven by a woman . |
| 6 | When Wallace embarked in one of these in his search for the Greater Bird of Paradise , he described it as far preferable to travelling in a first-class steamer of the time : |
| 7 | His dark eyes lit up as he grinned and said , in only faintly accented English , ‘ We are lucky that the penalties for travelling in a first-class carriage on a third-class ticket are so severe or we would not have got on . ’ |
| 8 | Travelling in a first-class carriage , waited on hand and foot and endlessly interrupted by kind ticket inspectors who wanted to see if one was quite happy ! |
| 9 | In practice , that rarely happened because , they said , people from Awlad Amira and from Jlulat were travelling in a vast area and so did not often meet ; and because , knowing that all Jlulat would unite , Amira refrained from attack , and vice versa . |
| 10 | Level Two shoves Sly onto a motorbike , he 's chasing after one of the CWD bosses travelling in a black Cadillac . |
| 11 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 12 | Advanced police driver Constable Paul Phillips and Constable Zena Goode told an inquest Northampton General Hospital that 17 year old Mark Windram was travelling in a stolen car at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour through the town . |
| 13 | Right , so where would the car be travelling in a southward direction ? |
| 14 | Prosecuting counsel John Nutting has alleged the two men , who were travelling in a red Sierra , were stopped in June last year on the A64 Leeds-York road , North Yorkshire , by Special Constable Glenn Goodman and Pc Alexander Kelly . |
| 15 | The rich landed gentry and the new but small professional classes may run the risk of travelling in an unsprung carriage on the winding dirt roads ( not to mention the risk of highwaymen ) . |
| 16 | The main route , travelling in an anti-clockwise direction , covers approximately 40 miles , so allow an hour or so for driving and as long as you like for stops ! |