Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True four-wheel drive vehicles or those with time for a 30-kilometre trek could have probably made it , but we , having neither time nor lockable differentials , carried on across the edge of Mývatnsöræfi , a huge featureless desert of lava and ash fields . |
| 2 | looked on across a fence . |
| 3 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 4 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 5 | Conference , these statistics have been proved in one small area of the United Kingdom , the results if the same exercise was carried out across the length and breadth of the country would be frightening . |
| 6 | Up to 20 of the bogus MOT certificates have turned up across the province in the last year , prompting a major investigation by detectives . |
| 7 | The topsoil could then be pushed back across the site and to all appearances undisturbed agricultural land was left . |
| 8 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 9 | Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants , while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted . |
| 10 | Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy . |
| 11 | Slowly at first , then ever more rapidly , she was drawn out across the lake . |
| 12 | The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged . |
| 13 | Doyle was flung back across the table , a milk bottle exploding in the bag he held across his chest . |
| 14 | By this time the crowd following the marchers had spilled out across the roadway , effectively breaking the ban on a march within the city walls . |
| 15 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 16 | With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals . |
| 17 | The present writer was co-ordinator of the UUUC ‘ Advice and Relief Centres ’ of which several hundred had been set up across the country . |
| 18 | Once again , a special link can be set up across the project teams ; in this example allowing Sally to access all of Frank 's modules . |
| 19 | He suggested that ethical committees could be set up across the country to provide an independent source of advice for doctors and families , taking the matter out of the hands of the courts . |
| 20 | Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck . |
| 21 | She was n't going to be happy until that two-fifty was zapped back across the void to Mirabeau Precinct . |
| 22 | His finger traced a narrow band of blue shading on the map which was laid out across the table . |
| 23 | Kadan was stretched out across a couch which was placed under one of the windows which ran the length of the room . |
| 24 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 25 | John is stretched out across the floor by the bed . |
| 26 | Drops of rain run back across the windows , almost horizontally . |
| 27 | When the wind was wrong , the putrid stench was wafted up across the fields . |
| 28 | Then with a sudden ecstatic rush , we all resolved at once that it should be put up across the gate and the military must accept responsibility for destroying it . |
| 29 | Enter the steepening corner crack and climb it until it is possible to move delicately left out across the wall . |
| 30 | Similarly , if the London users want to enquire on the data , they initiate the enquiry on their local computer in the usual way , but behind the scenes the computer sends a message to its counterpart in New York asking for the data , which is then passed back across the network to be displayed on the enquirer 's screen . |