Example sentences of "[verb] across a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adopted his father-in-law 's coat of arms , which shows three ‘ bougets ’ or ‘ bouts ’ , which are double water bottles of animal skin such as were slung across a rider 's saddle during campaigns in Palestine . |
| 2 | On one occasion a furious blizzard howled across a landscape illuminated by a sunset of bloodshot gold . |
| 3 | Inter-agency activity ranged across a continuum from the perfunctory to the innovative . |
| 4 | The collection and storage of information is occurring across a spectrum of human activity . |
| 5 | A very clear example was the accident to a Viscount which crashed across an auto-bahn near Munich in 1965 . |
| 6 | Sure enough , at the top , when he had found his way through a screen of brambles , he could see the tumbledown shed across an expanse of gardens . |
| 7 | These themes are pursued across a range of tripartite associations in differing sectors of the economy , and in a number of countries . |
| 8 | These themes are pursued across a range of tripartite associations in differing sectors of the economy . |
| 9 | Imagine a trackway , winding across a hillside , no more than a sheep track , perhaps , or an ancient drove road . |
| 10 | Activity in Oxford city hospitals is at present scattered across a number of main sites ( the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals , the Radcliffe Infirmary , and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ) as well as several smaller specialised sites ( Warneford , Littlemore , Rivermead , etc . ) . |
| 11 | We headed for the north Norfolk coast , careering through the bright afternoon until Edward parked by a staithe where a creek coiled across a salt marsh , and we all piled out . |
| 12 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time that people who think they 're in the fast track come across a roadblock and are overtaken by people in what was falsely described as the slow track . ’ |
| 13 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 14 | Hayling had come across a man called Chris Walsh who was already getting funds from the GLC for his latest , faltering , business enterprise , a Third World Development unit based in Highbury , North London . |
| 15 | Katie 's come across a problem she 's got too many bits , so she 's going to go up and along , this time she 's |
| 16 | Never had Berret come across a case with so many promising openings that led nowhere . |
| 17 | A number of marriage counsellors I have spoken to all agree that they have never in fact come across a case where infidelity has improved a marriage . |
| 18 | However , it does have once scene of interest when the band come across a village occupied by South Vietnamese soldiers and an American advisor . |
| 19 | I 've come across a bit of architrave by the way . |
| 20 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 21 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 22 | This year I have come across a group using a bothy as a base from which to run mountain walking courses . |
| 23 | Many people have had experiences of déjà vu , when they have come across a place which they are able to describe in precise detail even though they know they have never been there before . |
| 24 | Access is easy , for although the car parks are few , they are strategically placed , and I 've not yet come across a walker with tales of local farmers barring the way . |
| 25 | Nowhere in Eliot 's anthropological reading had he come across an example of a student of primitive civilization who had himself turned cannibal . |
| 26 | The pale women in black who walked along the dusty road beside the wire on Sundays , and the unguarded French prisoners who returned to their camps from work every evening might have been extras walking across a film set . |
| 27 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
| 28 | Not long after the nomes moved into the quarry a fox was surprised and delighted to come across a couple of unwary berry-gatherers , which it ate . |
| 29 | On a good day you might happen to come across a man taking his dog for exercise . |
| 30 | The main body of these superb watercolours is of more recent vintage and runs the whole gamut of the seasons it is refreshing to come across a trio of such shivery snowscapes as Deep Snow , Upleatham ( 28 ) , Road into Guisborough ( 78 ) and Tocketts Farm in Snow Guisborough ( 22 ) . |