Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | These themes are pursued across a range of tripartite associations in differing sectors of the economy , and in a number of countries . |
| 4 | These themes are pursued across a range of tripartite associations in differing sectors of the economy . |
| 5 | 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 . ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Never had Berret come across a case with so many promising openings that led nowhere . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , it does have once scene of interest when the band come across a village occupied by South Vietnamese soldiers and an American advisor . |
| 13 | I 've come across a bit of architrave by the way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This year I have come across a group using a bothy as a base from which to run mountain walking courses . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nowhere in Eliot 's anthropological reading had he come across an example of a student of primitive civilization who had himself turned cannibal . |
| 20 | Not clear black , but a fog-soaked grey , haloing the distant watch-fires of the enemy in a smudged orange blur , as if a thumb had been smeared across a landscape canvas . |
| 21 | Ranulf slumped on to the bench and pushed across a silver piece . |
| 22 | Then cars may be parked on the verges and a way made across a footbridge over the River Elchaig to a well-blazed path leading up , in one mile , to the top of the Falls of Glomach , a very popular objective of walkers approaching from the head of Loch Duich . |
| 23 | Hence other methods were tried in order to reduce the memory overheads , and comparisons were made across a number of different methods . |
| 24 | The boat was wedged across a rock where the current was not as bad as that elsewhere , and they threw a rope across to McCandless who tied it around himself and the near-unconscious woman . |
| 25 | In Main Street a healthy , smiling young man was striding by , effortlessly carrying , as though he hardly noticed it , two baskets of fruit , suspended at each tip of a bending bamboo arched across a shoulder . |
| 26 | The Dwarf forces met across a sea of blood and green bodies . |
| 27 | But this programme is balm to millions , many of them toothless , gaga and slumped across a Zimmer frame . |
| 28 | This technique , known as journal-to-journal co-citation , can thus be applied across a variety of subjects . |
| 29 | This involves the assumption , ‘ Chalk leaves white traces when drawn across a blackboard ’ . |
| 30 | The sounds of Danish mingled with those of knives drawn across a plate , the screech of jays , and the buzz and hum that rose from within her and ousted her tranquillity . |