Example sentences of "crossing the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this district of Bristol , two miles west of the city centre , is the famous suspension bridge crossing the Avon Gorge 245 feet above the river . |
| 2 | They were leaving the village , crossing the Avon . |
| 3 | Others , which display the higher growth rates of the Pacific countries , the greater per capita incomes of their peoples , and the steadily increasing volumes of iron ore , oil and containerized trade crossing the Pacific , are powerful indicators of an undeniable trend . |
| 4 | Not many top businessmen would even contemplate crossing the Pacific in a hot air balloon , for fun or any other reason . |
| 5 | G-FLIX in happier days , crossing the English Channel on the front of our July issue . |
| 6 | Troops and supplies were crossing the Benouville bridge as I approached the café . |
| 7 | The route was tremendous and very spectacular , crossing the Lake District , the Pennines , the Cleveland Hills , and the North Yorkshire Moors , in fact it links three national parks . |
| 8 | Above : crossing the Douro of Porto ; refuelling at La Coruňa . |
| 9 | For a moment , crossing the Melling Road , I thought we might nearly be placed but that 's when he started to tie up . |
| 10 | Then followed a cruise round Zeeland and Fünen before passing once more through the Keil Canal , running down the Dutch coast and crossing the North Sea to Harwich . |
| 11 | As they sat with their drinks on the terrace , Lunia noticed a handsome young man in a velvet suit wearing a large black felt hat and a red scarf crossing the Boulevard Montparnasse . |
| 12 | As early as 1845 he surveyed a line for a railway crossing the Grampian mountains between Perth and Inverness , but the Bill presented to Parliament , requesting permission , was defeated in 1846 on the grounds of impracticality . |
| 13 | People living in a picturesque village say it 's become a rat run for lorries trying to avoid crossing the Severn Bridge . |
| 14 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 15 | It was as a result of the Russian advance across the Urals that many Mansis and Khantys moved away from their homes , the latter crossing the Ob into the middle part of its basin , while some of the Selkups who had lived on the Ob , as well as Kets on the Yenisei , moved off to the north . |
| 16 | In fact , when 435 next reported crossing the BN it was almost overhead the airfield , flying parallel to the ILS localiser . |
| 17 | Beyond Dean Hill the principal line is interpreted as being deflected southeastwards , continuing as the underlying cause of the Portsdown structure , crossing the Sussex coast east of the Middleton well . |
| 18 | Charlemagne 's baggage train is attacked whilst crossing the Alps on one of his campaigns . |
| 19 | To the north the Celts were arising in central Europe , chiefly expanding northward , but also crossing the Alps to replace the Golasecca culture around the lakes and founding the Gaulish city of Mediolanum , so called because of its position in the centre of the Lombardy plain . |
| 20 | crossing the Alps in solemn formation |
| 21 | Travel by bus crossing the Nile to Tuna El Gebel . |
| 22 | Only a madman would possibly undergo all the privations of crossing the Turnwise Ocean in order to merely look at anything . |
| 23 | One such Roman road led from Londinium westward , crossing the River Thames by a stone bridge — at a place now called Staines — to Exeter , and to a place where the Romans utilised the local waters for their baths , aptly called Bath . |
| 24 | He then moved on into Armenia , but on 10th June 1190 , while crossing the River Salef , his horse shied suddenly and Barbarossa fell and disappeared beneath the swiftly flowing waters . |
| 25 | Barbarossa died by drowning or from a heart attack , falling from his horse while crossing the River Salef near Antioch . |
| 26 | The stone Brig o'Balgownie crossing the River Don north of the town was built with its graceful Gothic arch in the fourteenth century by Robert the Bruce . |
| 27 | The bridge crossing the River Torridge is nearly 680 feet long and has 24 masonry arches with spans varying between 12 and 25 feet . |
| 28 | At Haven Bridge , crossing the River Yare near the Town Hall , is a rare surviving example of a commercial ice-house . |
| 29 | The Tongueland Bridge crossing the River Dee ( A755 ) was the first bridge built in Scotland by Telford ( q.v . ) . |
| 30 | The almost fragile-looking Union Chain Bridge crossing the River Tweed to link England and Scotland is the earliest surviving suspension bridge in the country , though contemporary with work on Telford 's Menai Bridge ( q.v . ) . |