I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ditch runs along/down etc sth
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A muddy ditch ran along the side of the field.
along the lines of,
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We usually start with general questions along the lines of, ‘How do you feel?’
along the same lines (= in the same way )
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We were both thinking along the same lines .
along...lines (= in a very different way )
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In South Africa, the press developed along very different lines .
an opportunity comes (along/up)
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We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
coming along...nicely (= it is growing well )
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The garden’s coming along very nicely now .
divided along...lines
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The community remains divided along religious lines .
drive on/along/down the motorway
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He was driving along the motorway at a steady sixty miles an hour.
farther away/apart/down/along etc
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The boats were drifting farther and farther apart.
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a resort town farther up the coast
grope your way along/across etc
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I was groping my way blindly through the trees.
make...up as...go along (= think of things to say as I am speaking )
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I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along .
making...up as...went along
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He was making the story up as he went along.
run your fingers through/over/along etc sth
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She ran her fingers through his hair.
something along those lines
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They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines .
split along...lines
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The committee was split along party lines .
walk on/along the beach
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She loved to walk along the beach in the early morning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bring
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Else Lynes had also brought along her active class to perform a display item before a most appreciative audience.
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With their tote bags, the immigrants brought alOng all their old prejudices, and immediately picked up some new ones.
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Like Patterson and company in the past, he is being brought along for the experience.
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Water, oxygen, and food will be brought along from Earth at a cost of several thousand dollars per pound.
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Di Driver brought along some photographs taken just over a year ago.
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A light jacket is good to bring along , as the weather is often chilly this time of year.
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Pam has come down for a day of shopping, bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath.
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She kept in the background, realizing that she had only been brought along to make up numbers.
come
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My Director-General asked me to come along because I usually handle the lower-level liaison with Number 10.
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Johnny sat down and cried. Along came a fox, who asked Johnny why he was crying.
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Then along came an entrepreneurial Yorkshireman called Thomas Stamford Raffles.
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He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along .
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More humans will come along in the morning.
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Let Hilda know if you are coming along .
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I kind of gave it up by the time she came along .
get
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National literatures, like writers, get along the best way they can, and with what they can.
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Our students are markedly lacking in social skills, the ability to meet people and to get along with them.
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For a long time now we've called ourselves poor, but we've managed to get along .
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Her major concern is how she will succeed at making sure the people on the teams get along with one another.
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Wolves and Goblins seem to get along very well, and the two races have thrived together.
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She used her conciliatory skills to get along with her remote grandfather, who provided so little company for her grandmother.
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But we did get along all right.
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The girls at the school remarked on how well the beasts got along .
go
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These pieces, on view in London, also went along the smugglers' network.
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We are going along at top speed, because we are using all ours up just as fast as we can.
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Remember that you are bound to go along some passages that are dead ends.
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It has all of the requisite sand, surf, sun, snobs and sin to go along with its saucy swimwear.
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She just went along the wall, and I didn't see her face.
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But Ellison said Jobs ultimately decided not to go forward and he went along .
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But no doubt you went along just in case.
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He emphatically is not advocating parents to go along with kids' desires for tattoos.
help
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They must be helped along the funnel to Marseilles, M'mselle.
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Since then, the death cap has been steadily expanding its range, helped along recently by a string of rainy winters.
hurry
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She hurries along the street, looking straight in front of her.
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She saw a figure hurrying along the pavement towards her, and realised that it was Marco.
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So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room.
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She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions, up a few stairs to the imposing door.
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He hurried along the deserted early-morning pavements to the cinema.
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She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.
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There's loads of shops with their lights on and traffic and people hurrying along the pavement.
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The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
move
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It's a very good cruiser, too, moving along effortlessly at motorway limit speeds and above. 40.
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For five minutes she is moving along as usual.
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The whole of him vibrating with the bus as it moved along .
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We are are so big, and move along with such momentum, that we are able to live through everything.
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Instead of drifting along the ceiling of the corridor, the smoke moves along as a solid plug.
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Director Scott Michell acquits himself admirably; this is his first feature, and it moves along smoothly, professionally, rhythmically.
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The Mercedes moved along the Kurfurstendamm as snow started to fall again.
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The plates would then presumably move along with the currents, connecting the upwellings and downwellings in giant convection cells.
play
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Thacker was not overjoyed to see them, but he played along , switching on the charm.
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The neighbor, it turns out, is fashioning a crude, one-string instrument so he can play along .
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Had he really thought that I would play along ?
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Of course, I play along .
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Dustin, realising the error, decided to play along .
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The Raiders played along with the theme.
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I played along , saying I was acting on behalf of Boot-in Inc.
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Shultz refused to play along , saying that Peres should convince his own prime minister.
run
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It had a nasty, disfiguring stain running along the whole of the top edge.
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To some extent the answer is self-evident: State and national politics run along distinct and not always parallel tracks.
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Steadying himself, he made his way over the roof and on to the parapet that ran along the side of the building.
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A bench ran along one wall; there was a table in front of it.
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His analysis of the situation ran along different lines.
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People stopped and stared, or laughed, or ran along beside us screaming.
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The road ran along the valley between them, where boulders had settled.
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A promenade ran along the top, and Ruth saw Council workmen piling sandbags against the brightly painted railings.
sing
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You can also sing along to the songs if you wish.
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She played piano, and sang , and we all tried to sing along .
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He even began to sing along quietly when Gary played.
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A possible suitor wearing a Walkman sang along intermittently much louder than he realized.
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The audience waved, swayed and sang along enthusiastically, as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him.
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The congregation was singing along vigorously and clapping.
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One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar, but he turned out to be the roadie.
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I like songs that you can sing along to, and you can remember.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I must/I'd better be getting along
I'd better mosey along/be moseying along
all along
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He realized that she'd been right all along.
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I knew all along I wanted to live in the Santa Fe area.
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I spent over an hour looking for my keys, and they were in my purse all along.
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Grant arrived on the battlefield to find the Federals under heavy pressure all along their front.
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He has been polite to Paul all along.
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It was something he knew all along.
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It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker.
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That has been my position all along.
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The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see.
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They probably thought I was crazy all along.
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We told Kelly all along what the doctors were saying.
along religious/ethnic/party etc lines
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In Moldavia there was a marked division of voting along ethnic lines .
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In the specific conditions of post-colonial underdevelopment it is not unusual to find conflict within the bourgeoisie working along ethnic lines .
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It comes as no surprise that the caricatures are extended along ethnic lines .
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On Capitol Hill, reactions to Bush's proposals fell predictably along party lines .
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The committee voted 21-16, along party lines , to empower Burton.
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The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines .
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The vote was 35 to 24, almost strictly along party lines .
along these/those lines
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Democritus drew up a map along these lines .
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Different proposals along these lines have already been introduced by members of Congress from both parties.
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Frankly, I had nothing to share along those lines .
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I was getting a lot of work along these lines in the theater.
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In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
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It would be quite wrong to claim that it gave us orders along those lines .
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Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines .
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The parties have made promises along these lines .
along/down the road
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At one spot along the road , a lone flower escaped the flames that poured through the Three Bar Wildlife Area.
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How far down the road of cutbacks do bank management want to go?
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Lily shot a quick horrified look up and down the road .
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No car had come down the road for a while.
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There's a nice place down the road .
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Well, we want to let you know that a new church is opening just down the road from you.
be carried along (by sth)
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Corpses were carried along, standing upright.
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He wasn't, so he didn't go right down, but was carried along under water.
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I let myself be carried along by the crowd.
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She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital.
be coming along
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Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.
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He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along.
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I noticed that a horse was coming along the road, so I supposed the animals were afraid of him.
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Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
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Some one was coming along the corridor from the foyer.
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We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.
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Yes, somebody was coming along the passage - a man.
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Your deck should be coming along nicely now, with the structure in place.
be strung (out) along/across etc sth
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Lights were strung across the promenade; around the Casino.
come along!
come/go along for the ride
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I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride .
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But do members just go along for the ride ?
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His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride .
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I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride .
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I went along for the ride .
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Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride .
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Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride .
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Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride .
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The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride .
get on/along famously
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By all accounts, she and Uncle Walter got on famously .
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Dorothy and Amelia got on famously .
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The ticket woman and I had got on famously .
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They spoke with me and we got on famously .
get on/along like a house on fire
go along with you!
move sb ↔along
must/should etc be pushing along
play sb along
right along/through/around etc
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Don't pull the thread right through at this stage.
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He came right through the War, just to be killed on that damned motorbike.
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He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
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He had slept right through the night.
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His grey eyes stared back at me intensely, as if right through me.
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I love to hear this, but then you see guys slide right through the draft.
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Route 1 runs right through it.
run your eyes over/along etc sth
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The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.
somewhere along the line
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Somewhere along the line , we just stopped talking to each other.
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And somewhere along the line , the street became an idea.
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But somewhere along the line they stopped laughing when they compared their own results with what we were achieving.
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But somewhere along the line , downhill skiing was too much of a chore and an expense.
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Every accident may be regarded as the result of the action of a human being somewhere along the line .
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He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line .
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If he did, the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line .
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They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
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You missed your forte somewhere along the line , Meg.
string sb along
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He showed me the notes he had made as we went along .
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I was driving along , listening to the radio.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A door banged several yards along .
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For five minutes she is moving along as usual.
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I did not persuade or influence him; he intended all along to stick it out until the end.
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I spent more time with the law, along with family, in a general, small practice.
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I stay a few feet behind, watching the three of them shuffle along at a ten-month-old's pace.
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It was not a big deal: all the unions were expected to go along .
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They had enjoyed each other's company over the last hour, hacking along the foreshore of the estuary.
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When data is fed into input, D1 and a clock pulse given, the data moves along one place.
II. preposition
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Martins' house is somewhere along this road.
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The Rif Mountains were visible as we sailed along the African coast.
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They put up a fence along the sidewalk.
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Troops were stationed all along the border.
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Walk along the canal as far as the bridge.
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We followed the path along the shore for several miles.
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We took a walk along the river.
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Wild strawberries grew along the trail.