According to the demand of alliteration, Old English poetry may show syntax and word order different from prose. Here I give a list of expressions found rather frequently in verse lines, mostly in a half-line unit, in relation to the verbs of motion. Boldface is used for an element, a vowel or a consonant with alliteration.

‘Prep X V’:

GenB 499b Þa het he me on þysne sið faran, 514b þæt he on þisne sið fare, 553b þonne ic of þys siðe cume, 627b þe on woruld come, 830b þeah me on sæ wadan, 832a on flod faran, 834a ac ic to þam grunde genge, 847a ac hie on gebed feollon, GenA 1014b and on wræc hweorfan, 1099b on last cymeð, 1143b þa he of worulde gewat, 1783a to Sicem com, 2001b him on swaðe feollon, 2038b oððe on wæl feollan, 2236a on bedd gan, 2267b ac heo on sið gewat, 2321b þæs þe on woruld cymð, 2365a on woruld cumen, 2740b under sceade gefor; Ex 319b þa hie on sund stigon;