Example sentences of "[adv] walk across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |
| 2 | Then you can picnic , play football or cricket or just walk across the moorland and look at the sheep . |
| 3 | But she says I sometimes just walk across the road and go to the Meeting House at you know |
| 4 | Ye , yesterday afternoon , as a matter of fact , I walked up to the gate and I come back and I just walked across the lawn and I I felt the sun . |
| 5 | We may be a grandmother , but we can still walk across the tea-room with a girlish flick of the bottom . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've simply walked across the Wolfwood and come out where another road runs through it , ’ said Floy . |
| 7 | Teddy shows no expression , he simply walks across the room and makes himself an instant coffee . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't take someone 's bread , ’ he said , ‘ and then walk across the street and say ‘ Fuck you ’ . |
| 9 | I sat down and took off my shoes and socks — I was wearing slacks and trainers — and then walked across the bay , luxuriating in the feel of the fine warm sand under my bare feet . |
| 10 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 11 | He stood , then walked across the room , touching the old man 's arm briefly , sympathetically . |