Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] along the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's Bigwig coming back along the bottom , and the other two with him . " |
| 2 | Then the cliffs come alive with sea birds gliding effortlessly along the coastline on fishing or scavenging expeditions . |
| 3 | She heard the door open and close , then his footsteps coming back along the corridor and go into the sitting room . |
| 4 | Consider the Jewish joke , with the old lady running distractedly along the sea shore : Help ! |
| 5 | I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy . |
| 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 | She could imagine dark-robed figures moving silently along the stone corridors in place of the healthy young men and women she knew to be living inside . |
| 8 | There were two of Hugh 's sergeants waiting impassively along the path , with a litter on which to lay him for passage to castle or abbey , according as Hugh should direct . |
| 9 | It was a peculiar bobbing movement travelling irregularly along the top of the board . |
| 10 | Woods ( 1982 ) reports that , with the addition of certain efficiency techniques to island-driving , there was little difference in the success rates of their hybrid strategy starting near the left of the utterance , and their island driving strategy starting anywhere along the time-dimension . |
| 11 | There were people standing all along the back , and down the sides . |
| 12 | This has led to the suggestion that the fine structure is created from a series of lamellar crystals winding helically along the spherulite radius . |
| 13 | He opened the curtains on stark daylight , and a bright sea pouring in along the beach . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Any material moving southwards along the east coast is stopped by the eastward projection of the Norfolk coast , which has been likened by Steers to a great groyne . |
| 16 | The Report observes : ‘ It is now 25 years since Mitbestimmung ( Co-determination ) was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany ’ ; and again : ‘ As long ago as 1972 the EEC published draft proposals for a Fifth Directive on Company law , proposing employee representation on the supervisory boards of all companies in the Community with over 500 employees ’ — a rhetorical presentation that pictures the United Kingdom as dragging its reluctant feet well in the rear of a party marching briskly along the path towards a bright new future entrusted not wholly but largely to trade unions . |
| 17 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |