Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] along " in BNC.

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1 The trail goes on along the side of Snidley Moor , on around the base of Alvanley Cliff and by Simmonds Hill , Manley .
2 Right , that 's erm as time goes on along there ,
3 The two feet would shrink with a cheating stick , and perhaps we could avoid some of the easier but time-consuming lower pitches by sneaking in along the first terrace from an easier route .
4 While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s .
5 The Sierra Leone government promised the AfDB there would be strict environmental protection measures , but despite such assurances , loggers , farmers and charcoal-burners moved in along the new road , eating into the rainforest .
6 I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday .
7 Resolving to ‘ quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home ’ , he headed off along the North African coast in the direction of Mecca , driven onwards by what he described as ‘ an overmastering impulse from within' .
8 That area should now be hived off along the line delineated in Map B.
9 The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance .
10 He moved off along the shelves , reading as he went .
11 Lissa pressed her fingertips to the window-pane , as though in some way that would keep him near to her , but the ambulance moved off along the road and the fragile connection was severed .
12 Then the line of vehicles pulled away one by one , forming a loose convoy as they moved off along the deserted main street , heading for the edge of town .
13 A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison .
14 The seamen aboard Villa de Bilbao lined up along the bow and the starting gun was fired .
15 A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way .
16 Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west .
17 The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory .
18 I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside .
19 The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage .
20 A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) .
21 She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought .
22 Downes looked down at his wristwatch , and at last turned away , walking back along the bare platform towards the footbridge — where he was confronted by the bulk of the broad-shouldered Lewis .
23 Summerchild would have mentioned it by way of defending Northumberland Avenue , perhaps while they were still walking back along Great Scotland Yard .
24 ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay .
25 We headed out along the waterfront towards the port , but it felt as if I was treading water .
26 They left the shop and headed back along the road , Sammy crawling miserably along behind them .
27 She moved back along the counter and , picking up a box of the sugared candy , she was about to scoop some into the scales when the shop bell rang again .
28 A solid snake of people still wound back along the north shore of the loch .
29 The tide was going out , she saw ; if she walked along the parade as far as the pier , she would be able to come back along the sands .
30 State censorship is abhorrent and unthinkable in a democratic country , but censorship carried out along party lines is equally abhorrent and is a significant move towards state censorship .
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