Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [v-ing] along the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plague bacillus , known by the Latin name Yersinia pestis , was carried on marmot skins by fur traders travelling along the old Silk Road from the East . |
| 2 | All chordates have a nerve chord running along the back , and all higher chordates were derived from forms with gill slits . |
| 3 | About 1956 or 1957 she got an evening job in one of the espresso bars opening along the High Road , making sandwiches and frying eggs . |
| 4 | One thinks of Orlando and Knole ; Squirrel Nutkin scampering along the shores of Derwentwater ; and the Dorset and Wiltshire countryside which forms such an emotive backdrop for the characters in Thomas Hardy 's novels . |
| 5 | The stepping motor shown in Fig. 1.3(b) has eight stator/rotor teeth and is in the position corresponding to excitation of stack A. looking along the axial length of the motor the rotor teeth in each stack are aligned , whereas the stator teeth have different relative orientations between stacks , so in stacks and G the stator and rotor teeth are not fully aligned . |
| 6 | You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma . |
| 7 | The Minoan village street passing along the west side of House C |
| 8 | The big , heavy blue door loomed before me and as I knocked I heard Mr Simons shuffling along the partially carpeted hall to greet me . |
| 9 | David protested a little at her going , but assured her it would be no trouble to take her home , and some fifteen minutes later , after she had said her thank-yous and good-byes and collected her belongings , they were in his super-charged sports car roaring along the lanes . |
| 10 | Even now , with the sports car scorching along the expressway , and the breeze cooling her flushed cheeks , Laura still felt almost sick with embarrassment . |
| 11 | East Anglia Walking along the 50 mile Suffolk Coast Path |
| 12 | It is not about circus clowns tumbling along the track , and sideshows of beautiful women , stiltmen and floats . |
| 13 | During the 1989 and 1990 growing seasons , we used a microvideo camera to record monthly images of fine root cohorts growing along the exterior surfaces of 12 minirhizotrons ( clear plastic tubes ) located in each forest . |
| 14 | Plastic rubbish floating along the shores of the Antarctic peninsular is causing serious environmental damage to animals , plants and marine life . |
| 15 | Ralph sat in the driving seat of his car , inching slowly forward with the snaking traffic jam stretching along the road . |
| 16 | The preponderance of VGP paths lying along the eastern Pacific rim reported by Laj and others is therefore evidence of asymmetry between reversed and normal states in the field . |
| 17 | The street took on a sense of unreality , the posters outside the theatre announcing the new Season , a huge photograph of Gesner , some bonbon papers blowing along the pavement , a surly young man sidling up to the front of the theatre . |
| 18 | Well what I saw was some tail lights going along the road . |
| 19 | In the above expression one must be careful to choose the dimensions a , b to lie in the 1- and 2-directions respectively , the cylinder axis lying along the 3-direction . |
| 20 | The gas bubbles forming along the lines were keeping the acid out of the lines . |
| 21 | We were n't getting er traffic which would otherwise be on the western relief road going along the southern bypass and then round the northern bypass to get back to the A sixty one . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too . |
| 23 | Some species , such as Pharyngolepis , illustrated here , had long paired fin folds running along the ventral sides of the body . |
| 24 | — A hospital trolley trundling along the corridor broke into her private world . |
| 25 | A railway line running along the eastern side is one of the more interesting hazards . |
| 26 | Occasionally , the clouds , cleared and I was able to film mink scavenging along the rocky shoreline at low tide . |
| 27 | Those of the fort 's garrison who were not instantly blown to pieces had their lungs burst by the blast waves travelling along the corridors . |
| 28 | If so , it would have been splendid to have seen a small blue Ford Anglia spluttering along the road as I descended , with a tiny white face peering from a condensation-covered back window . |
| 29 | To measure the paralysing effect of such a prospect on military planners , one has only to visualise the British and American tank divisions manoeuvring along the inner German border , while East Germans whose invasion they are supposedly repelling stream past westwards in their overloaded Ladas and Brabants . |