Example sentences of "[adv prt] the river " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the paper and board mills remain along the river near the old docks . |
| 2 | Sometimes when the rapids ahead looked particularly fearsome we 'd stop and walk along the river bank to see if they were navigable . |
| 3 | Continue along the river and cross over the footbridge just after Gudham Gill flows into the River Nent . |
| 4 | Cafés stretch along the river bank , and many of the old half-timbered houses so characteristic of this region conceal bars , restaurants and coffee shops . |
| 5 | I understand at one time it was possible to cross the river by means of stepping stones but these are no longer in position and the landowner finds that walkers wander along the river bank looking for the path and for a way to cross the river . |
| 6 | She sat by the guttering fire and watched creatures move along the river . |
| 7 | Charley had lived in Saltash next to the Lee family , who had a fleet of small boats and made their living by carrying country produce over the river to the rapidly growing Three Towns . |
| 8 | What falls there are , we know not ; what rocks beset the channel , we know not ; what walls rise over the river , we know not . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll go the other way , climb down the back and escape over the river . |
| 10 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 11 | I glanced away , back up the river from where we 'd come . |
| 12 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 13 | Friedrich Engels singled out the river Aire in Leeds and the Irk in Manchester for special mention : ‘ In dry weather , a long string of the most disgusting , blackish-green slime pools are left standing on this bank , from the depth of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable . ’ |
| 14 | If someone pulls you out the river when you 're half drowning , you just lie on the bank coughing and spluttering , and no one expects you to say anything . |
| 15 | Mark was in a jogging phase , trying to hold back the river of age , puffing around in his new Nike Air . |
| 16 | This area was once the site of a Gunpowder Mill and a lot of the old ruined buildings remain around the river including the Weir and the Old Mill Lade . |
| 17 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 18 | In a London teaching hospital close by the river , from which he could in his more masochistic moments glimpse the window of his own office , Dr. Charles Freeborn , Controller of the Forensic Science Service , all six foot four of him , lay rigidly in his narrow bed , his nose peaked high above the methodical fold of the sheet , his white hair a haze against the whiter pillow . |
| 19 | There were houses of turf and stone close by the river , and sometimes they passed rowboats , but the flatboat was sailing up against a rock wall it could not scale . |
| 20 | Towards the end of the 11th century Gundulph , Bishop of Rochester , looking for a site to build for himself and his successors a manor house , chose a spot close by the river at Halling . |