Example sentences of "road that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been bemused too long by the great military roads of the Romans and have not given enough thought and research to the local ‘ economic ’ roads that developed during the two or three centuries that followed the Conquest and the brief phase of military occupation . |
| 2 | It 's great to go slow where you 've got houses , children and all the other things , but I , Avenue , which is on er plan five , is one of the radial roads that goes through the centre of erm out in the direction and to put a thirty mile an hour speed limit on this I think is totally unrealistic . |
| 3 | The two roads that go by way of Anglet , a suburb which has accumulated to fill in the gap between the two towns , are no better than functional . |
| 4 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
| 5 | It is well worth a deviation from the main road into part of the network of good minor roads that lead to these farm-estates . |
| 6 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 7 | It passes through villages that become increasingly small and simple as you get deeper into the high hills : through Banca , in the eighteenth century a centre of the local copper-mining industry , then Aldudes itself , which has a very nice small square and a Basque-style church , and finally Urepel , reached by a turning off to the left from the road that continues into Spain . |
| 8 | But as they continued down the hill to Dingle and along the road that curved round the harbour to Ballingolin , she was even more bewildered to hear him reciting family history to her — history she had taken in with her mother 's milk and knew by heart . |
| 9 | You can find it on the maps of Bosnia-Herzegovina , hugging the road that crawls around the mountains between Medjugorje and Mostar . |
| 10 | Ace 's arm was outstretched , rigid , pointing to a road that meandered along the valley floor . |
| 11 | My eyes skip the busy road that sweeps around the head of the port and is divided by a great oval flowerbed , garishly planted . |
| 12 | it 's a road that goes through there to Swingdale Road and there 's a little place in there . |
| 13 | I do n't know what the road that goes across it was , but another great big wide road running across it |
| 14 | You know Marble Arch , what 's the long road that goes off Marble Arch ? |
| 15 | Pusey if you take the road that goes to Pusey you |
| 16 | You approach Chipping Norton along this road , a straight road that goes into Chipping Norton . |
| 17 | He ran like the wind down the narrow road that went to the Toops ' house . |
| 18 | She glanced at the road ahead , a road that seemed to just shoot upwards at a terrifying angle . |
| 19 | Or they could fork to the right , up Once Hill , past the rectory and on to the steep , narrow road that wound over the downs to Badstoneleigh , off which the entrance gates of Sea House opened . |
| 20 | For in that far wood , which protected the road that ran towards the Prussian army , were Riflemen . |
| 21 | They had just turned the corner of the NAAFI building on their way to the public road that ran through the camp when they bumped into two airmen . |
| 22 | He cycled out of 3-Wing on to the Hay-on-Wye road that ran through the camp . |
| 23 | Theda pushed through the trees and found she was coming out into the road that ran through Switham Thicket . |
| 24 | Charlie asked as they reached the road that ran along the top of the shore . |
| 25 | My immediate neighbours were miners ; and in my walks on the hills , eating up time and taking the free air , I had often met groups of miners going along the old Roman road that ran along the spine of the hill above my home . |
| 26 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 27 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 28 | The road that ran along the shoreline on the eastern side of the course would be closed to traffic and for security reasons there would only be one pay-gate on that side . |
| 29 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 30 | But the road that ran from the town , called Théovard , by-passed Les Glycines five hundred yards to the north , and we dismounted rather than run the motor cycle over the pitted lane . |