Example sentences of "itself across the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme , within the committee of officials charged with reshaping the national educational system , was the isolated Cleary who saw the common school at the age of eleven gradually extending itself across the whole of the secondary age range . |
| 2 | From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them … |
| 3 | Far away we can hear the noise of the wind forcing its way up some narrow gully then bursting free to hurl itself across the plateau we crossed yesterday . |
| 4 | Through the haze , Bolton Castle was just beginning to show itself across the dale , square and massive . |
| 5 | This meant that the high pressure system which had established itself across the country in the first part of December , and the ensuing hard freeze , was next to useless from a winter climber 's point of view , with the crags totally bare . |
| 6 | It unravelled itself across the page . |
| 7 | Twenty-ninth August — the German Army has managed to get itself across the Seine and , according to the news at the Brigade H.Q , 4th Commando Brigade has joined in the pursuit . |