Example sentences of "[vb past] walking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some point during this silent debate Summerchild came walking up the lane . |
| 2 | As she nodded towards the bathroom , right on cue it opened , and Jake , dressed in trousers with a towel slung round his neck , came walking with a broad smile into the room . |
| 3 | El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle came away in perplexity and that day , when Prince Rainbow came walking through the marshes , he said , " Well , well , Prince with the Thousand Enemies , where are the lettuces ? " |
| 4 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 5 | Scrambling down from the mound of sand , Garry began walking towards the houses , his hands and knees stained orange . |
| 6 | ’ Dismissing him with a gesture , she began walking towards the door which she meant to bang closed behind him . |
| 7 | She began walking towards the depression , as four suited figures followed her from the ship , still arguing about the paperwork . |
| 8 | She began walking towards the door . |
| 9 | Then I plucked up the courage to start moving around on my own and began walking down a path when the gentleman in grey asked people to stand aside , and I stepped well back . |
| 10 | ‘ Dos horas , ’ he said , and without a backward glance , began walking up the hill . |
| 11 | There was another mighty crash and a priest began walking through the congregation swinging a censer and laying his hand on the head of anyone who offered . |
| 12 | In the shade of the buildings on the square , he began walking to the station . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She got up and began walking round the kitchen , collecting a dirty cup here , a saucer there , putting them in the sink . |
| 15 | Claire stood up and began walking around the room , idly picking up one of the many calculators lying around , her hand trailing over the volumes of books on the shelves . |
| 16 | A few minutes spent walking around the churchyard of the Church of St. John the Baptist , Halling , will reveal an ancient wall . |
| 17 | He knew a little about plants and animals , and he enjoyed walking through the woods around his house and looking at the birds and flowers there . |
| 18 | So he started walking along the road out of town . |
| 19 | When I was ready , I started walking into the shallow water away from Blefuscu . |
| 20 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 21 | Youngman was given a breath test which proved positive and was told he was being arrested , but he started walking towards a public house . |
| 22 | The shepherd started walking towards the malthouse , and Boldwood followed him , holding the letter . |
| 23 | The next day we returned to the Rovacchia with more food for the boys , but as we started walking towards the embankment we heard a woman shouting at us : ‘ Where is Anna ? |
| 24 | you jus he kept walking into the doors . |
| 25 | The Ruff-stuff 's tracks swept off to the right so we kept walking to the left . |
| 26 | You remember in France , the er they made you where we kept walking round the table and er she sa , anyway said er fish soup ? |
| 27 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 28 | The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox . |
| 29 | That first evening they went walking up the hill away from Marshall 's cottage , to a small plantation of aspen trees . |
| 30 | Where , went walking on the coral . |