Example sentences of "walk across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking across the Bonaparte Bridge , I looked in vain for what was marked by a giant cross on the tourist map . |
| 2 | One field away , two men were walking across the plough with lurchers on leads . |
| 3 | On another occasion , walking across the water-meadows away from Kidlington church towards Hampton Poyle , he told me how ( during one of the school holidays ) he had read Thomas Hardy 's Jude the Obscure and , at the end of the day , had climbed a haystack . |
| 4 | She calmed down , and told me that she had a sudden impression , walking across the little valley , of women and children in great danger ; nothing else , but a terrible feeling that women and children were about to be harmed . |
| 5 | Can you hear the upstairs neighbour walking across the floor ? |
| 6 | I was walking across the car park when someone jumped on my back . |
| 7 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 8 | The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox . |
| 9 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're walking across the floor . |
| 11 | Now , she was walking across the room when she farted , and her father said , ‘ Did you whisper ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Roger , ’ she said ‘ what would you do if you saw a ferocious tiger walking across the playground ? ’ |
| 13 | She was agitated ; she was walking across the lawn instead of to the gate . ’ |
| 14 | The four Washingtons got airborne and flew in formation over the Station , just as the AOC was walking across the Parade Square . |
| 15 | WHEN walking across the upland fells of Britain , it is not uncommon to find the whitened jawbone of a long-dead sheep , teeth rattling in its sockets . |
| 16 | Repeat the viewing process after walking across the rug a few times , as this will show how it responds to use . |
| 17 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 18 | Until noon he stayed out of the cottage , walking across the Northumbrian moors with a knob-headed stick and humming Anglican hymns , whose verbal schemes he admired for their metrical embodiment of depression . |
| 19 | But he was gone already , walking across the white cloud , and then across the pink cloud . |
| 20 | As well as canoeing , there will be a jazz band-led water pageant , tight rope walking across the River Witham , circus acts , parascending and parachute drop , steel band , model boats and orchestra performance of the Water Music with fireworks . |
| 21 | It was Baptiste , walking across the clearing and lowering himself to sit next to her . |
| 22 | I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug . |
| 23 | Cashman shouted , ignoring Matt 's hand , walking across the room to lean on the desk as though he was finding it difficult to remain upright without support . |
| 24 | Multiple passes in each arm are used to increase the effective optical path length ; the scheme shown in Fig. 10.5 with the beam walking across the mirror at successive reflections is known as an optical delay line . |
| 25 | He was walking across the office floor towards her . |
| 26 | Sort of Oh we used to risk our necks walking across the ruddy this mill was a bit of a wreck actually and we used to go playing in places where we should n't have really . |
| 27 | The people walking across the Parade down there are in a world of their own ; no great glass eyes are turned inquiringly up towards me . |
| 28 | He moved away , walking across the room to stare out through the patio doors , a strange tension in the rigid set of his shoulders . |
| 29 | ‘ There was no time , ’ he said curtly , walking across the deep-pile carpet towards the wide floor-to-ceiling windows at the far side of the large room . |
| 30 | ‘ Here — drink this and you 'll soon feel a great deal better , ’ he added , walking across the room towards her . |