Example sentences of "diagonally across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kept himself diagonally across the room as far away as he could . |
| 2 | Make your first passes diagonally across the floor in parallel runs |
| 3 | He swivelled the board round , moved effortlessly into a wave and stood up , cutting diagonally across the break and finishing with a headstand . |
| 4 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 5 | Radio Lock , at $99.95 , is a steel bar with lock which runs diagonally across the avionics stack and is attached to two steel nuts which must be installed in the panel , from Aircraft Security & Alert Systems B&J Locking Bars comprise a cross-shaped steel tube arrangement specifically for Cessna singles and the Skymaster twin which is padlocked in place between the control wheel tubes , locking the controls and blocking access to avionics Do readers know of any enterprising UK manufacturers or importers marketing such gadgets ? |
| 6 | It was interesting , I thought , that as far as they were able in their maybe four-foot-wide stalls , most of them were standing diagonally across the space , the better to deal with the motion ; and they all looked alert and interested , sure signs of contentment . |
| 7 | They swayed peacefully to the motion , standing diagonally across the stalls , watching me incuriously , seemingly content . |
| 8 | 1 Cut the fillets diagonally across the grain into 7mm/⅓in strips . |
| 9 | Hold the moulding firmly against the far side of the mitre box with one hand and then hold the saw in the other hand and draw it diagonally across the moulding to cut the mitre . |
| 10 | Go through a white gate , go left and walk diagonally across the field , through a gate in the hedge opposite into a large field . |
| 11 | Bear left and go diagonally across the field to the far corner . |
| 12 | Cross this stile and walk diagonally across the field beyond . |
| 13 | He had ascertained during daylight that the lavatory was diagonally across the passage from his room door , and , as the passage was now unlit and he was unable to find the light switch , he crossed the passage in the dark and , by feeling his way , came to a door which he believed to be that of the lavatory , but which was in fact a door leading to the basement . |
| 14 | An upper garment is drawn diagonally across the breasts , revealing their broad forms and falling loose below them over the tight belt which it conceals at the sides , and it hangs in a shallow curve on the left hip , a long trail on the right . |
| 15 | The body lay diagonally across the path , as he had said , not quite flat on its face and breast , rather on the right shoulder , but with the right arm flung clear behind , and the left groping wide beside him , clear of the folds of the coarse hooded cloak he wore . |
| 16 | It 's a geodesic shape with two longer poles running diagonally across the frame of the tent and two shorter poles arched at either end . |
| 17 | With figure 4.2 , however , the cycle is seen as going diagonally across the matrix rather than running along one axis . |
| 18 | This further implies that the product life-cycle should be seen as shown on the revised McKinsey-GE grid of figure 4.4 , rather than as running diagonally across the matrix from top left to bottom right , as figure 4.3 implies . |
| 19 | A potting shed of conspicuous new timber , a patio area protected by a screen of lattice-work bricks , a path of very sane crazy paving winding diagonally across the lawn , a meticulous row of cloches . |
| 20 | The car careered out diagonally across the lane , heading straight for the wall on the other side . |
| 21 | The runways of the city airport can be seen on the extreme centre right of the image , while the route of Interstate Highway 135 ( Topeka to Wichita ) runs diagonally across the area from lower left to top right . |
| 22 | I explained rapidly about the pillbox and sure enough we saw Cawthorne set out from the farmhouse , walking diagonally across the Paddock towards the fence . |
| 23 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 24 | Its potentially attractive location , diagonally across the Thames from Tower Bridge ( symbolic bastion of ‘ Victorian values ’ ) and within sight of Canary Warf ( the monumental flagship of Thatcherite free-enterprise ) , rather alarmingly underscores the financially precarious position of the museum . |
| 25 | Each player is separated from his or her partner by a tall screen placed diagonally across the table to restrict their communication . |