Example sentences of "[adv prt] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork . |
| 2 | Even when trap lines are laid down along the hunting paths of a relatively specialized predator like the barn owl , there may be considerable differences in species proportions represented in the two assemblages . |
| 3 | The green lawns were bright and cut close , the thickets of daffodils had not quite died down along the edges of the drive . |
| 4 | The road worsened as I edged gingerly down along the country 's sunken spine , vanishing at times in coils of thick black mud . |
| 5 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 6 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 7 | In this way , many birds ensure that they cross the Mediterranean at its narrowest point , the Straits of Gibraltar , or circumvent the sea altogether by travelling east into Asia across the Bosphorus and then down along the eastern shore of the sea by way of Israel . |
| 8 | With his other hand he slid one finger along the line of her temple , the slender arch of her neck , and then down along the soft swell of her breasts at the V-neckline of her dress , pausing at the small gold St Christopher gleaming against her freshly tanned skin , in the warm hollow of her cleavage . |
| 9 | ‘ We will continue down along the eastern slope of the ridge . ’ |
| 10 | Hilary Frome , stretched face down along the floor , was writhing and retching at the top of the stairs . |
| 11 | There may be one or two flooded areas in the morning down along the east coast , but elsewhere should just have a few heavy showers . |
| 12 | They 're down along the road by the lake 's edge . |
| 13 | And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity . |
| 14 | As the rate of interest fell , so there would be a contraction of the money supply ( a movement down along the Ms curve ) and an increase in the demand for money balances especially speculative balances , since people would increasingly judge with lower interest rates that now was not the time to buy securities ( there is a movement down along the liquidity preference curve ) . |
| 15 | As the rate of interest fell , so there would be a contraction of the money supply ( a movement down along the Ms curve ) and an increase in the demand for money balances especially speculative balances , since people would increasingly judge with lower interest rates that now was not the time to buy securities ( there is a movement down along the liquidity preference curve ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Food was being sent in along the republic 's only rail link with Georgia . |
| 18 | This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi . |
| 19 | In May 1942 , the Eighth Army was dug in along the Gazala line on the defensive . |
| 20 | The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line , only sixty miles to the west of the Nile . |
| 21 | He opened the curtains on stark daylight , and a bright sea pouring in along the beach . |
| 22 | No lights came on when they tried the switch just inside the heavy oak door , but a minute 's search with a flashlight found the main fusebox further in along the wall . |
| 23 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 26 | Alternatively , you could place the template on the cake and stick little pins in along the outline and any details . |
| 27 | The family was far from being the poorest of the peasants , but Nasser nonetheless had first-hand experience of the poverty-stricken conditions of the rural Egyptians , crammed in along the banks of the Nile on which the whole country depended . |
| 28 | By night the lava lake presents an unearthly sight , with great slabs of dark , solidified crust shifting about slowly on the surface , allowing the bright lava underneath to gleam through along the cracks between slabs . |
| 29 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 30 | I strode off along a grassy cliff-top path peppered with stunted gorse bushes , towards the grey lookout tower where a mounted wall-exhibition explains that this stretch of coast is a designated Nature Reserve on account of its abundant birds , wildlife and rare limestone rock formations . |