Example sentences of "[modal v] walk the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll walk the course before racing , but we do n't want much more rain , ’ he said . |
| 2 | " But if I do n't have that name you 'll walk the streets too — and you know how difficult it will be to find another position without references . " |
| 3 | I 'll ask him if he 'll walk the dogs with me . |
| 4 | I 'll walk the rest . ’ |
| 5 | Those concerned about football hooliganism today idealize the stable post-war years when it was safe to be on the terraces and one could walk the streets at night . |
| 6 | I do n't think you could walk the five miles to our cottage ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Castrate rapists ’ A TORY MP has demanded that rapists should be castrated so that women could walk the streets safely at night . |
| 8 | They 'd walk the patch and talk to foremen … |
| 9 | They used to walk the twelve miles Stowmarket to Ipswich , they used to go to the police station after five o'clock , and they used to get a ticket , which they used to take up to the casual ward . |
| 10 | Let's walk the front way . |
| 11 | Yes , while I live , no rich or noble maid shall walk the world in credit to his grave . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd think people would have heed , but no heed , never any heed , no care for anybody else , ’ he complained as he drove ; but before the bridge he startled them by driving the car into the space in front of McCabe 's and announcing that they would walk the rest of the way through the village . |
| 13 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 14 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 15 | Arm-in-arm with the day-conductress , she would walk the length of the train , watching the ice being tapped off the water inlets and the track-hoppers getting a warning from the new MCK engine elbowing its way backwards . |
| 16 | They 'd all come straight to Ingham 's after the Requiem Mass and they were waiting now for John Burns , the undertaker , to come and tell them when the grave was ready at the cemetery and the men would walk the coffin there . |
| 17 | In India the production of salt was a government monopoly : he announced that he would walk the 250 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea and break the law by making salt . |
| 18 | Some day , I decided , I would walk the entire length of the road in the opposite direction from Gearstones by Cam Fell to Bainbridge . |
| 19 | On fine days they would walk the length of the creek , down past where it trickled under Deptford Bridge into the sports field at Saint Johns . |
| 20 | She would walk the half-mile or so , and if Luke did n't like the idea then he knew exactly what he could do about it . |
| 21 | Visitors will find themselves in a ‘ salon de peinture ’ and overhear the opinions of detractors and supporters of the Impressionist movement ; they will be ushered into a middle-class apartment ; will walk the streets of Paris with their long-gone artisan workshops ; peep into the fitting-room of a milliner ; and cross the Pont de l'Europe , near the Gare Saint-Lazare , where they will recognise the quality of light captured by Monet in his paintings , filtering through the smoke of the locomotives . |
| 22 | Inspectors will walk the river 's length discussing the new protected area 's boundaries with landowners . |
| 23 | Few complain about ‘ Just looking thanks ’ in a town where stock is displayed in authentic settings ; where you can walk the patch in a day ; where dealers make time to talk and where Bath 's famous light lends allure to even the diciest piece . |
| 24 | The track has been converted into a cycle and pedestrian walkway , and people with energy can walk the eleven miles to the coast . |
| 25 | As soon as the child can walk the sphere of his education is extended . |
| 26 | You can walk the roads and pick them . |
| 27 | I think there 's a footpath to walk on but you can walk the other side of the road , will that do it ? |