Example sentences of "[art] road a " in BNC.
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| 1 | About fifty or sixty yards away on the right-band side of the road a mortar bomb burst in the hedgerow , followed a few seconds later by four German soldiers carrying automatic weapons jumping from the hedgerow and scampering along the road . |
| 2 | With the light , it feels colder and I run down the road a bit to warm myself up . |
| 3 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 4 | ‘ To my friend 's , ’ said Mrs Wright , wandering over the road a bit . |
| 5 | Uncle Walter had walked down the road a bit with Philip . |
| 6 | I skate down the road a bit before I shout at cops — or anyone that was giving me some shit . |
| 7 | From this point , a single-track lane with many gates may be followed upriver to rejoin the road a mile short of Dent : a journey not recommended to anyone in a hurry . |
| 8 | Early in the afternoon , on the third day of walking without the wheelbarrow , four men appeared on the road a quarter of a mile further up the canyon . |
| 9 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 10 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 11 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 12 | A woman of about 30 lurched out of the Post Office in front of us and staggered down the road a few steps before falling — her exposed thighs and palms making a sickening ‘ slap-smack ’ sound on the pavement . |
| 13 | Across the road a plump , middle-aged woman with greying auburn hair was peering out of a window . |
| 14 | ‘ Efter we get alang here a wee bit , ye come tae a loch , then roon' the bend is a castle , then we cairry oan up the road a bit till we cam tae anither loch … ’ |
| 15 | Immediately below the road a National Trust car park , placed between a distinctive tall chimney and ruined engine building of the long defunct Carn Galver mine , marks the starting point . |
| 16 | ‘ Just down the road a little way . |
| 17 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 18 | At the end of the road a boy was doing good business from the refrigerated box mounted over the front wheel of his bicycle . |
| 19 | A hundred yards down on the other side of the road a knot of men were gathered . |
| 20 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 21 | In the road a gang of boys with a makeshift ticket bat stopped their game to look at her . |
| 22 | But on a hummock by the road a starling-sized bird turned round to reveal a brilliant crimson front which identified it as a long-tailed meadowlark , locally called military starling . |
| 23 | Down the road a man in his fifties — a window cleaner — lost his wife who died after a long and harrowing illness . |
| 24 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
| 25 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 26 | Down the road a little , a streetlamp spotlit a grubby newsstand . |
| 27 | And there where the trees were no longer trees , nor the road a road |
| 28 | Just as we scrambled out of the ditch again , one of the woodchucks dropping his black rifle and barely managing to grab the sling as it slid back into the foul water , a straggler from the malai patrol crossed the road a hundred and fifty metres away , looked to his left and saw us . |
| 29 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 30 | A middle-aged woman passed along the street on roller skates , and across the road a fat man was fixing a notice , ‘ Only a few days to go . |