Example sentences of "[verb] across the [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Peter could obviously read her mind , for , scrawled across the bottom in his distinctive handwriting , was , ‘ No excuses ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Second , it is not true that girls underachieve across the board in education . |
| 8 | I found the shop I wanted ; an open Bible and a quote from it in Spanish written across the glass in white-wash . |
| 9 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One user , in his thirties with a vast experience of illegal drug use , came across the drug in this way . |
| 15 | Eventually the Shaws came across the Rectory in the village of Ayot St Lawrence , three miles north-west of Welwyn in Hertfordshire . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | After an hour or so , they came across the ring in some garden rubbish . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The car park was so full that upon my visits to the hospital I now parked across the road in a garden centre . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A straight-edge is used to guide a glass cutter , which is drawn across the glass in one firm continuous stroke . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With two drama/percussionists and a saxophonist — composer Steve Blake — the Victims of Death band creates a relentless musical background that sends the dancers rushing across the stage in the opening section of Precious , an endless succession of attract/repel contacts , with walks , runs and jumps , not dance steps per se , but crafted seamlessly into a totally interactive structure . |
| 26 | The accounts are , as usual , contradictory , but according to the fullest account de Tourville next despatched nine of his ships back to Brest to collect additional troops , who were to be transported across the Channel in shallow-draught galleys , collected from the Mediterranean , with a mere two feet [ 0.6 m ] of freeboard between waterline and deck . |
| 27 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 28 | Other easily recognised Balanchine signatures can be seen in passages marked Stretto where his dancers stab their toes into the floor as they travel across the stage in posés attitudes devant or à la seconde . |
| 29 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 30 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |