Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] along the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see the thunderheads building all along the edges of her one perfect summer , and she shivered apprehensively . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He shouted towards a black man who was walking slowly along the dock . |
| 4 | Annie was sitting beside Rachel 's pram , talking and laughing with the child , when she noticed the young man walking slowly along the paved path . |
| 5 | Half an hour later , walking slowly along the road into Haslemere through the mild grey morning , Harry described in his mind another circuit of all the barely linked half-chances that persuaded him Cunningham was right and concluded , not for the first time , that logic and probability were irrelevant . |
| 6 | As she gazed at the floor , unable to look at him , there flashed across her mind that image of two figures walking together along the path from the beach . |
| 7 | Doors were opening all along the corridor . |
| 8 | Freddie glanced fearfully in the policeman 's direction but he was already walking smartly along the narrow street . |
| 9 | She would have to go and make sure that everything was all right — and that meant goodbye to walking home along the sands . |
| 10 | They were walking home along the river bank . |
| 11 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 12 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 13 | A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) . |
| 14 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 15 | Downes looked down at his wristwatch , and at last turned away , walking back along the bare platform towards the footbridge — where he was confronted by the bulk of the broad-shouldered Lewis . |
| 16 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 17 | This has led to the suggestion that the fine structure is created from a series of lamellar crystals winding helically along the spherulite radius . |
| 18 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 19 | Hugh was driving fast along the bumpy , stone-skittering road , longing for sleep . |
| 20 | He was walking unsteadily along the road , obviously the worse for drink . |
| 21 | The reel began to screech in protest as a fine trout tore off into the distance , leaping spectacularly along the way . |
| 22 | In Europe we have one major set of structures , from Precambrian to Recent , which relate first to plates splitting and colliding approximately along the Atlantic line and to the later sea-floor spreading that produced that ocean as we see it today . |
| 23 | By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped , letting the clouds gather . |
| 24 | It was Buffy pushing all along the line . |
| 25 | Dalgliesh had last seen Blaney six months earlier splashing alone along the edge of the beach , painting gear slung over his shoulder , and was shocked by the change in the man . |
| 26 | Then the cliffs come alive with sea birds gliding effortlessly along the coastline on fishing or scavenging expeditions . |
| 27 | Then , looking up along the gully where the boar had been , Kalchu noticed a young boy leading his dog on a chain . |
| 28 | When the Guggenheim Museum finally re-opens later this month ( 28 June ) , after what seem like decades of restoration and renovation , visitors will step into Wright 's great rotunda and , looking up along the famous spiralling ramp , see … no art at all ! |
| 29 | At last we arrived at his car , where several other walkers were hanging around looking dolefully along the road . |
| 30 | Right : Looking back along the Bwlch Main ridge on the day Billy 's ashes were scattered . |