Example sentences of "[coord] along a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 2 | Sometimes pleasant mental images will be suggested — perhaps a walk in a country lane or along a seashore . |
| 3 | Before then the only way to reach the last village at this end of the island was by boat or along a narrow path which clung to the hillside above precipitous cliffs . |
| 4 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 5 | Catherine crept up the stairs and along a gloomy corridor . |
| 6 | One of the men now rushed from the room and along a passage to some stairs . |
| 7 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 8 | Over the top of the pass there is a long descent through plantations and along a hillside into the fertile valley of Glen More , a quiet cultivated strath where a few farms keep their pastures in good heart , contrasting with the shaggy heights around . |
| 9 | Take the footpath between the hedge and the gravestones to go through a gate and along a grassy path . |
| 10 | The abbey site is approached through a gate in a country lane and along a grassy track . |
| 11 | She took Artemis down a back flight of stairs and along a corridor which ran under one of the colonnades , and then through the kitchen wing , along another long corridor with rooms in which Artemis had never been . |
| 12 | Alice went out of his office and along a passage to the general office at the end . |
| 13 | Each man , John was to learn , would cut out up to half a ton of slate and load it onto a sledge which he would drag out of the open shaft and along a perilous track slotted narrowly into the fellside . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll take care of it , do n't worry , ’ Christina assured them , before leading them down four deep stone steps and along a pathway , past a bright wall of alamanda and hibiscus bushes camouflaging the car park . |
| 15 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 16 | All on the level , yet quite varied , leading along an old railway track through heathland , past a lake near Thorpeness and along a shingle beach . |
| 17 | He guided Alexandra out of the kitchen and along a passage so dark that if it had not been for his hand on her elbow , she would not have known where she was going . |
| 18 | As we went down some steps and along a dark passageway , open to the sky , I recalled Maria 's visit to this terrible place , the night they 'd had Raoul here , the night Arsenio had wanted to kill Raoul and Osvaldo had forgiven him . |
| 19 | The distant mountain ranges made her think of giants sleeping beneath blue blankets , but most of all she was vitally conscious of Silas , who guided the party of young women over hills , down valleys and along a track beside the bush . |
| 20 | They slipped like shadows through the great doorway of the Lady 's Tower , and along a dark stone passage to a low oak door set in the inner wall . |
| 21 | Furthermore , we are assuming that the absence of latent heat and a change in specific volume is true not only at one point but along a finite part of the ( p , T ) diagram . |