Example sentences of "it [vb past] along " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rode along the counter , ringing the bell of its bicycle at intervals . |
| 2 | In the distance , Ybreska saw a vehicle approaching , throwing up huge dust-clouds as it bumped along the rutted track . |
| 3 | The shuttle trembled violently as it accelerated along the runway . |
| 4 | It chugged along the thin edge of slopes where , hundreds of feet below , Endill could see lochs with birds and boats on . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid it vanished along the main highway . |
| 6 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |
| 7 | Only the wind made a sound as it streamed along the sides of the Rover and poured through the open windows . |
| 8 | We sat in the jeep for a few moments watching the column as it disappeared along the very dusty road , and was soon out of sight , after passing Sulnier 's farm . |
| 9 | It screamed along the tunnels , its banshee-wail bouncing madly from stone to stone . |
| 10 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 11 | It lay along the lines of Layton 's understanding of the poetic function ‘ which exists somewhere between fact and imagination , ’ as Eli Mandel said of him . |
| 12 | On the eastern side of the county , indeed , where it lay along the Bedfordshire border , one acre in every two was dealt with by the Georgian planners . |
| 13 | The driver and conductor made up for them by shouting and singing , and the little bus itself was extremely noisy as it rattled along the bumpy streets . |
| 14 | It rattled along the road , waking a baroque concerto of echoes from rotting red-brick gables , and somewhere , in a front-room shrouded with dirty net curtains , a baby began to cry . |
| 15 | It was not a cart-track but one used by men on foot only , perhaps by single horsemen , and it ran along the bank of the stream before turning and crossing by the log , then it seemed to wander off , more or less straight into the forest . |
| 16 | The language used by the ivory and slave traders as well as by European explorers like Burton , Speke , Stanley and Livingstone , it spread along the trade routes : inland from Bagamoyo , Kilwa and Mboamaji to Tabora and then south towards the gap between Takes Tanganyika and Malawi , west to the town of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika , north-west to Karagwe and north to Lake Victoria . |