Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] across [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 2 | Desire is played out across flesh . |
| 3 | Forest fires have broken out across Indonesia , causing widespread air pollution and disruption of air and sea transport . |
| 4 | At these low temperatures the dipolar molecules of this supercooled water become ordered in such a way that a repulsive force is set up across voids . |
| 5 | By the 14th Serafin is being steered back across Whitehall , out of the pale sunshine , and in through the threatening corridors of the Cabinet Office towards these peaceful quarters at the rear , where rooms have already been quietly set aside for him . |
| 6 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |