Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woman named : A woman found wandering along the A167 last Saturday night has been identified as Margaret Ratcliffe , from Swalwell , near Newcastle . |
| 2 | Some of the crew tried getting along the bank — you know how people are sometimes found clinging to the branches of trees overhanging the river a mile or so downstream . |
| 3 | The silhouette of a small man in German uniform came shambling along the wire . |
| 4 | Before I could do anything , two medics came sprinting along the path from the direction of the big house . |
| 5 | It was a nice touch when she came running along the embankment , late , fresh from her lover 's embraces . ’ |
| 6 | An hour or so later Owen was working peacefully in his office when the door slammed at the end of the building and feet came running along the corridor . |
| 7 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 8 | As she got out of the lift on the top floor , Damian Flint came striding along the corridor and they collided . |
| 9 | Fleury , too , continued to grieve for her and was now composing a poem in which her little ghost came tripping along the ramparts sniffing flowers , unperturbed by the flying cannon balls ( it was not a very good poem ) . |
| 10 | I began walking along the track leading behind the beach towards the village , which was marked by the red tin roof of a tiny church showing above the casuarinas and palm trees . |
| 11 | I contemplate the thought of days spent looking along the length of Tony 's tripod bag . |
| 12 | For three years now we had moved stealthily through the darkness , sometimes absurdly confident , sometimes terrified , but always wondering just what sort of man it was that we heard creeping along the wall towards us and what sort of weapon he had in his hand . |
| 13 | Fields now began thinking along the lines of a low-budget operation — and of a possible investor with the money , and the push , to satisfy the requirements of the CAA , and get the airline aloft . |
| 14 | So he started walking along the road out of town . |
| 15 | As he did not look where he was going , the car 's near-side wheels started running along the grass . |
| 16 | We rushed out of the building and started running along the street , hardly knowing where we were or where we were going , until we felt we had put enough distance between us and the reception . |
| 17 | Well she started flopping along the floor on her back . |
| 18 | He kept looking along the lines of men beside him . |
| 19 | A motor-cycle cop with his siren on went roaring along the elevated expressway that was level with the surgery window . |
| 20 | Dong and Hoc ran panting along the adjacent ranks allotted to them , calling out frequently to encourage one another and to check each other 's progress . |
| 21 | Harry now stood looking along the table as he added thoughtfully , ‘ It would be awful if he did , would n't it ? ’ |
| 22 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |