Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the road " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's going to be extraordinarily difficult to check that a piece of timber that you buy in a market here , or you buy down the road in a timber yard , is in fact , erm does in fact come from a particular forest in Ghana . |
| 2 | ’ It wis when I cam hame frae that , ’ he said , ’ that I took tae the road . ’ |
| 3 | I turned right and walked up to a crossroads where two shops and a bar were open ; I could n't go in because I had no money , so I continued up the road . |
| 4 | It was when she heard the phrase ‘ hit-and-run job ’ that she glanced into the road . |
| 5 | It 's just the pressure that you feel on the road particularly when you have a large vehicle behind you — a big lorry and they ca n't overtake because there 's something coming in the opposite direction … it does make you quite nervous . |
| 6 | Meredith supposed Harriet would be fully committed socially over the Christmas period but she wanted to offer some token of hospitality , so she went across the road after breakfast and asked if Harriet would like to come over to lunch . |
| 7 | Jenny reappeared soon enough and she suggested that we nip down the road to a little pâtisserie she knew , which of course we did . |
| 8 | It has been identified as the Alauna of the Ravenna list by Rivet and Smith , although Richmond and Crawford earlier assigned this name to Alchester , which in some ways makes better sense , since its neighbours quoted in the list would indicate that it lies on the road from Silchester to the south Midlands ; nevertheless the derivation of the name of the River Alne from Alauna , and hence the name of the town on or near that river , is an attractive argument in favour of Rivet and Smith . |
| 9 | Grant pulls up in his car but realises that due to the camber he is unable to get out of his door , so he drives up the road does a three point turn and positions his vehicle to aid his extraction from the car seat to the pavement . |
| 10 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 11 | By that time , David and I had some serious talks and I went on the road for the second part of the tour to try to salvage the relationship , which did n't really work . |
| 12 | With the light , it feels colder and I run down the road a bit to warm myself up . |
| 13 | and she went across the road for something and while she was across the road Mrs came and was talking to that man . |
| 14 | The bus crashed to a halt , the doors puffed open and she dropped to the road . |
| 15 | She 's heard of Bayswater and she points up the road . |
| 16 | Maura 's eyes lit up and she skipped across the road to meet him . |
| 17 | ‘ When we 're writing or recording it 's always serious , and then if you went on the road for two months and you were serious you 'd spend your whole life being serious ! |
| 18 | So if you go up the road to Epping their elections take up all the councillors that are elected together . |
| 19 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 20 | Is this just an aberration , if you look at the road markings , you 'll see it seems to be official , cos the road is marked out for driving on the right , and the reason is that er , traffic law in this country says , that vehicles drive on the left , except in Savoy Street . |
| 21 | That this is a big paddock , and in the bottom of the right hand corner , if you stand on the road looking at it , there is a triangle of land that is tucked away , that you can hardly see from the roadside , that in my opinion is sufficiently secluded and sufficiently near to other services to allow us to go out to consultation . |
| 22 | And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub . |
| 23 | But then she got married and we lived down the road there for a while till they repaired these , they made these There was very old houses these are . |
| 24 | The jeep reached the River Orne and we turned off the road on to a narrow path just wide enough for the jeep . |
| 25 | If we returned to the road with our panniers full of food and met the Germans , they would probably stop and search us . |
| 26 | All the loveliness , all the things they could do , on the shore , in the water , exploring the heathland , and they sit above the road breathing in fumes with a plastic bottle for a plaything . |
| 27 | They wear lipstick , and shoes with high heels , and they walk down the road bravely , as if they 're not afraid of anything , as if the world is theirs , as if they have n't got mothers who seem to die a little every time they go out of the door . |
| 28 | Outside it was almost warmer than in the theatre and they walked along the road keeping a slight distance between them . |
| 29 | The woman handed her what was left of Donald , and Angelica said , ‘ People feed them and they wander into the road … it 's not surprising they get hurt . |
| 30 | It 's hoped the video will be distributed around young drivers so they can see what can happen if they take to the road without thought for safety . |