Example sentences of "[vb base] along the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the oily rag , rub along the back rail several times , then , taking a clean very lightly oiled rag , run it along the front edge of the needlebed . |
| 2 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 3 | As you wind along the corniche roads , passing vineyards and olive groves , you are sure to be reminded of the Côte d'Azur . |
| 4 | Leaving the deep hearth for whatever reason , hunger , duty , sexual imperatives , you trot along the lightless , complicated corridors of the buried labyrinth , their ambient odour a composite of you and all your kin . |
| 5 | Skulk along the shore and feed off others ’ carrion . |
| 6 | When I peer along the track I see that it will be on the track across from me , going south to the river . |
| 7 | Many of the paper and board mills remain along the river near the old docks . |
| 8 | Young caterpillars are very small and either graze along the surface of leaves or take tiny bites from the edges of young leaves . |
| 9 | This segmentation of spheres of action and influence along the lines of gender difference is reflected in the radio programming in the novel . |
| 10 | We belt along the freeway , clearing a good fifty miles , when suddenly Lucker slams a hard fist down on the dashboard . |
| 11 | Repeat along the length , so that all the triangles are evenly placed and cover the edge ( illustration 5 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Disco gear ; we have the most fantastic make-up and we dance along the catwalk to the most way-out music , which Roman has had specially composed . ’ |
| 13 | All clear : sparks fly along the nerve wires , pins and needles and it 's over . |
| 14 | While cats slink along the wall |
| 15 | I slit along the seam of the cardboard wrapper where it had been taped over . |
| 16 | In Bright Angel the heat is intense and cacti with red and yellow flowers grow along the sides of the trail among great sheared-off blocks of stone . |
| 17 | When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 18 | Payphone along the village — so take supply of coins . |
| 19 | Outside there was snow and slush along the streets and sidewalks . |
| 20 | Temples abound along the coast . |
| 21 | Encapsulated in their nose-to-tail cars , stranded drivers read papers , picked their noses and talked to themselves , resigned to the rush-hour wait along the Chiswick High Road . |
| 22 | With poppy seeds on bread , sesame seeds on hamburgers and cress seeds sprouting on flannel , how is the parent to know , let along the child ? |
| 23 | The sea also began to break over us and wash along the decks . |
| 24 | Clacton Police will start the initiative on Monday aimed at clamping down on the young drivers who regularly roar along the town 's one-way system , screeching tyres and playing loud music on their car stereos . |
| 25 | Shocked , half-blinded by tears , I blunder along the pas sage towards the bathroom . |
| 26 | Although they spread along the bank and searched the turbulence anxiously , there was no sign of the groom , either dead or alive . |
| 27 | But as he did he saw two hooded crows scutter along the cliff face and sneak down upon her , calling threateningly , and as she turned to them he was astonished to see that she moved clumsily , uncertainly , not as an adult eagle should . |
| 28 | But the committee chairman , the Labour MP , Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ Either changes are made , I hope along the lines that we recommend , or I very much fear statutory regulation to which I am very , very much opposed . ’ |
| 29 | Kids walk along the street , look at the concert poster , see the band 's name and read ‘ sold-out ’ . |
| 30 | Ahead of you as you walk along the length of the piazza is the Casa del Manzoni , Manzoni 's house , a fine nineteenth century building in which the writer lived from 1813 until his death on 22 May 1873 . |