Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] across the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | For the first time since Mary Tudor lost Calais in 1558 , Britain had troops permanently stationed across the Channel in peacetime . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Choral evensong still wafts across the ether in the late afternoon , courtesy of BBC Radio 3 . |
| 6 | The car park was so full that upon my visits to the hospital I now parked across the road in a garden centre . |
| 7 | God 's authority would sometimes flash across the universe in miracles and signs which illuminated the true nature of Satan 's shadowed kingdom . |