Example sentences of "across a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 3 | Some of these are indirect ways of reducing speeds , but nowhere is the direct way used ie a change in the law to bring speed limits below 50 km/h , applied street by street or across a zone , delimited by signs , enforced by the police , publicised widely , and then supported by infrastructural measures to ensure compliance as well as by environmental enhancement to reinforce perception of the changing function of the street to one of pedestrian ownership . |
| 4 | He pointed across a meadow overgrown with rushes . |
| 5 | Bamba ran ahead across a meadow . |
| 6 | Ankle deep in mud , we squelched across a meadow , stopping to admire the spread of water-violet which filled a tyke , whorls of pale lilac flowers encircling straight stems . |
| 7 | Excitement reduced Powell 's commentary to a stream of consciousness as he sprawled across a sofa in the living room of his Oxfordshire home . |
| 8 | Corbett nodded , rather embarrassed as Dame Agatha bustled round the room , laying the tray on a small table and dragging across a stool . |
| 9 | Another inch , another foot , another yard — on they crawled through the wet , cold mud across a terrain that still belonged to no man . |
| 10 | There had been no attempt to make these signatures credible ; the words ‘ for my Dear and especial Boy , with affectionate regards from Mr Arthur Bloxam ’ appeared across a faded nineteenth-century portrait ; but they also appeared scrawled lavishly across a portrait of an eighteen-year-old boxer torn from the sports pages of a recent newspaper . |
| 11 | Imagine a trackway , winding across a hillside , no more than a sheep track , perhaps , or an ancient drove road . |
| 12 | They saw him leave the room where they were sitting and begin to walk across a bar which lay between it and the entrance to the building . |
| 13 | Occasionally , you 'd come across a child , mostly down by the canal . |
| 14 | You 're different , you 're dynamic , let it come across a bit more about you and you know , what a good team you are and you 've cracked it . |
| 15 | This way , up a bit , across a bit this way , down , that 's it . |
| 16 | I 've come across a bit of architrave by the way . |
| 17 | Here , the front wheels scrabbled for grip , slithering across a hairpin as the turbo power overtook the capacity of the American Michelin tyres to transfer such substantial clout to the ground . |
| 18 | It would be a brave walker who would walk across a fairway , even if there was a public footpath . ’ |
| 19 | A nude hike across a death-world ? |
| 20 | But this programme is balm to millions , many of them toothless , gaga and slumped across a Zimmer frame . |
| 21 | Landowners pursue ‘ modern Whims ’ across a landscape exposing those places which had formerly given comfort to ‘ the hapless swain' . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On one occasion a furious blizzard howled across a landscape illuminated by a sunset of bloodshot gold . |
| 24 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 25 | The soft sound of the shots had knocked the man across the room , splashing his blood across a yard of wall . |
| 26 | My tyres rumbled across a cattle grating ; I watched for a marker board of the Screw Worm Quarantine Line . |
| 27 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 28 | It has a spectacular position on the coast and a 10 minutes walk down a steep drive and across a pebble beach will bring you to the town centre of Lipari . |
| 29 | Some GUI components are becoming standard across a variety of vendor platforms ; thus , the windowing system X Windows is shared by a number of systems running UNIX . |
| 30 | If the Unix suppliers are able to agree on a consistent systems management application programming interface — and each also uses a similar implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture — Corba — independent software vendors would be able to offer binary system management applications running across a variety of platforms . |