Example sentences of "[verb] across the [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Second , it is not true that girls underachieve across the board in education . |
| 3 | I found the shop I wanted ; an open Bible and a quote from it in Spanish written across the glass in white-wash . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Based across the border in Sudan , he had formed the MPS with Libyan backing , and had launched a series of offensives from Sudan 's western Darfur region ; the third ( and finally successful ) such offensive began on Nov. 10 . |
| 9 | When latecomers appear through doors which slam noisily behind them and creep across the room in front of you , do not try to continue by raising your voice while your audience turn to look at the newcomers . |
| 10 | At that moment a small butterfly flew across the path in front of us . |
| 11 | This ‘ three hits ’ principle applies across the board in communication , but it takes effort . |
| 12 | Cleveland has some 20,000 empty school places , and spends some £80 per pupil on its central administration , while only £40 per pupil is spent across the border in North Yorkshire . |
| 13 | I say a tall man coming across the street in shirt-sleeves . |
| 14 | It can identify the brief passage of an animal that might have run across the ground in front of it several hours previously . |
| 15 | He put his foot on the accelerator and surged across the street in Anfield , Liverpool . |
| 16 | God 's authority would sometimes flash across the universe in miracles and signs which illuminated the true nature of Satan 's shadowed kingdom . |
| 17 | Shrouds of silver rain shuffle across the sea in front of us . |
| 18 | For the first time since Mary Tudor lost Calais in 1558 , Britain had troops permanently stationed across the Channel in peacetime . |
| 19 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 20 | For the eleventh and twelfth centuries new estates developed centred on new caputs the castles and monasteries of Norman England , with their lands spread across the landscape in manors and vills . |
| 21 | Twice in Morocco he was arrested and interrogated as a spy by the French Foreign Legion who refused to believe that anyone would spend their holidays cycling across the desert in temperatures of 48 ’ C. |
| 22 | A cat nips across the pavement in front of us and slides through a gap in the fence . |
| 23 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 24 | The deep beam that once ran across the deckhead in line with the forward edge of the chart table has been removed and with it the possibility of scalping tall members of the crew every time they made their way forward through the saloon . |
| 25 | Indeed , Mr Mann fears being assassinated by extremist Sikhs who shelter across the border in Pakistan . |
| 26 | As she peered ahead of her , something shot across the road in front of the car , forcing her to brake sharply . |
| 27 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 28 | Once a grass-snake slid across the path in front of her and made her halt sharply with a startled cry , but she went resolutely on again , and at last the trees began to thin out and the patch of sky in front of her widen . |
| 29 | And the child runs across the road in front of the lorry . |
| 30 | The only exception to this method is when you are laying quarry tiles in mortar ; then , having set out the tiles dry , you start laying in one corner of the room , using battens as guides , and work across the room in bays four or five tiles wide . |