Example sentences of "run [adv] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 2 | More tears rolled onto the sand as he remembered how his father had dropped the bundle and run away across the farm , never to be seen again … . |
| 3 | The ridges run sharply across the sky , always bare . |
| 4 | There might be more advantage in making the categories run mid-way across the ten-year groups , giving 25–34 as a group if it is felt that some significant changes take place in people 's lives in their mid-thirties , or at other points in the mid-sections of the decades . |
| 5 | But our aim was Jack 's Rake , a tortuous climb running right across the cliff . |
| 6 | The thought was instantly suppressed by her happiness at seeing him again , and she was about to run swiftly across the room and into his arms when she registered his expression . |
| 7 | The man decided to run further across the road rather than go back . |
| 8 | The Old Dyke was a dry ditch , fifteen paces broad and about ten feet deep , backed to the west with a bank of earth , dry , decayed , tumbled , but running straight across the forest for mile after mile , monument of some forgotten war centuries old . |
| 9 | The Tame Valley Canal was one of the last canals to be built , running eastwards across the West Midlands from Tame Valley Junction on the Walsall Canal to Salford Junction on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal ( Oct 84 guide ) at the head of the Grand Union Canal . |
| 10 | But I could never again imagine him doing something as spontaneously crazy , as aggressively , contemptuously fate-tempting and unleashed as running out across the frozen ice , arms out , laughing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Patiently she waited beside the ticket collector till Gloria came running breathlessly across the station towards her . |
| 14 | Drops of rain run back across the windows , almost horizontally . |
| 15 | One of the earliest communication corridors , the Jurassic Way ran right across the country from the Cotswolds to Humberside passing through Banbury , roughly along the line of today 's Banbury Lane , towards Northampton and on to Stamford . |
| 16 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 17 | The murdered man 's head fell forwards , and the blood ran slowly across the table , and down onto the floor . |
| 18 | And then , as her dazed mind finally absorbed the fact that it really was Ross , and not a figment of her overheated imagination , she quickly jumped to her feet and ran swiftly across the floor towards him . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I ran away across the track because I wanted to avoid getting into any problems . |
| 20 | On this occasion he ran off across the field , but was later arrested . |
| 21 | Sam ran off across the yard ; he did not appear for lunch . |
| 22 | Quigley just stood there , his immense arms loose at his side , as the mass of the congregation , murmuring among themselves like extras in a bad production of a Shakespeare play , swept after Pike as he turned and , bucket in hand , ran off across the Common towards the spot where Mr Marr had been sitting the night the aliens came . |
| 23 | And she ran quickly across the field after the Rabbit . |
| 24 | Fearing suddenly that their behaviour might upset Jacques Devraux , Loc ran quickly across the clearing towards them . |
| 25 | The road ran straight across the desert for twenty miles . |
| 26 | She ran back across the yard to the hen-house , through the netting gate , across the muddy enclosure , scattering hens at each step . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 29 | Then she saw him , hanging on to one of the many bracing beams that ran horizontally across the Lock gates . |
| 30 | They ran happily across the snow to the south — eight men , seven sledges , and eighty-six dogs . |