Example sentences of "[verb] across the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of the dazzling white birds were spaced across the summit in close proximity . |
| 2 | The same process may also be happening across the border in the North East Oriente of Ecuador ( Hiraoka and Yamamoto 1980 ) . |
| 3 | In planning this network of commercial stations the companies involved had unashamedly looked across the Atlantic in search of inspiration and blueprints . |
| 4 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 5 | Peter could obviously read her mind , for , scrawled across the bottom in his distinctive handwriting , was , ‘ No excuses ! |
| 6 | Folly started to read down the list , but then her eye was caught by an emphatic message , scrawled across the page in capitals and underlined twice . |
| 7 | The long , winding column of armed men , on horses , on mules and on foot , was an unforgettable sight as it moved across the plain in a haze of dust under a blazing sky . |
| 8 | Second , it is not true that girls underachieve across the board in education . |
| 9 | I found the shop I wanted ; an open Bible and a quote from it in Spanish written across the glass in white-wash . |
| 10 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 11 | Twelve years old , hopeful and wholesome as a morning daisy , she appeared one Wednesday on the Wogan Show and told a nation with honesty and enthusiasm how she had sailed across the Atlantic in her Optimist . |
| 12 | There are a number of ways to get a game abandoned , although streaking across the pitch in only your underpants , as I did at Lake Town last season , is perhaps not the best . |
| 13 | The public softening of Turkey 's attitude towards the Kurds may , in the end , be less a change in policy than recognition of the difficulties in controlling what happens across the border in northern Iraq . |
| 14 | On 1 August Nos. 145 and 150 were transferred and pushed across the gap in the rails at Norbury , whence they were able to travel under their own power to Penge depôt . |
| 15 | England 's best known bridge was built across the Thames in 1888–94 , and cost over a million pounds . |
| 16 | The Star Ferry keeps on going , its little green ships bucking across the harbour in the growing swell until the last stragglers from Kowloon have made it to Hong Kong , and those bound north from the island have reached their goal . |
| 17 | One user , in his thirties with a vast experience of illegal drug use , came across the drug in this way . |
| 18 | Eventually the Shaws came across the Rectory in the village of Ayot St Lawrence , three miles north-west of Welwyn in Hertfordshire . |
| 19 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 20 | After an hour or so , they came across the ring in some garden rubbish . |
| 21 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 22 | When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive . |
| 23 | The car park was so full that upon my visits to the hospital I now parked across the road in a garden centre . |
| 24 | the side of an ordinary household paint brush was half loaded with paint and quickly moved across the canvas in any direction with a ‘ scrubbing ’ motion |
| 25 | On March 12 some 70 pro-Gamsakhurdia deputies from the Supreme Council of the Republic , the former Georgian parliament , met across the border in Groznyy , the capital of the Chechen Ingushetia autonomous republic in Russia . |
| 26 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 27 | A straight-edge is used to guide a glass cutter , which is drawn across the glass in one firm continuous stroke . |
| 28 | Moments later the parting was forgotten as Randolph Scott , flanked by a posse of brave volunteer deputies , galloped across the screen in search of the notorious Bodine Brothers from Kentucky . |
| 29 | Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides . |
| 30 | But having I could just tell councillor that the main problems which he felt he had to bring into this debate , the main problem is parking across the driveways in Harvey Goodwin Avenue , both the residents get very fed up because the parking . |