Example sentences of "moved across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floors , for instance , require finishes that are hard , water resistant , but at the same time flexible , so that the surface is not brittle and will not crack when objects are moved across the surface . |
| 2 | As the focus of the Bretton Woods institutions has moved across the Atlantic to central Europe deep-seated fears have arisen that time , resources and energy will be diverted from the economies of the southern hemisphere . |
| 3 | They were loaded on to two trucks at the airport , and were being moved across the tarmac when one of the bodies exploded . |
| 4 | A shadow moved across the brightness , coming towards his bed . |
| 5 | Sometime back in 1975 — the date franked on the envelopes — the front line moved across the postal sorting office and the employees must have simply run away during their shift . |
| 6 | Ranulf was sitting yards away and the soldiers were crowded together muttering and cursing to each other whilst Selkirk had already moved across the cemetery to a nearby grave . |
| 7 | The later Mariner 10 probe , launched in 1974 , confirmed that the dense sulphuric clouds moved across the sky so rapidly as to create violent storms at the surface . |
| 8 | Then everything went quiet apart from the piano which was played slower and slower and quieter and quieter as a hand moved across the screen . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's very beautiful , ’ she said sadly , then she lost sight of Jane as the Duke of Wellington 's party moved across the ballroom floor . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Some of the similarities between the East Asian and the pre-Columbian American civilisations can be explained by the fact that people may have moved across the bridge of land which connected north-east Asia to north-west America 15,000 or more years ago . |
| 12 | Bending double , he ducked beneath the window and was moving towards the door … when a long man-shaped shadow moved across the bar of light thrown out onto the paved pathway . |
| 13 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 14 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 15 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |
| 16 | The Chemist moved across the road . |
| 17 | The Chemist moved across the road . |
| 18 | Rather than investigate each complete path across the lattice , a window of width 2 is moved across the lattice . |
| 19 | Sounds from specific distances moved across the silence , footsteps in the gravel , voices , traffic . |
| 20 | Two heavy bombers moved across the sky at about ten thousand feet . |
| 21 | The stars moved across the emptiness of space . |
| 22 | No piece of chalk had moved across the front of me . |
| 23 | This picture was obtained by having the fluid illuminated along only one line and moving the camera so that the image of this line moved across the film . |