Example sentences of "across [art] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Known as the Fromebridge Company , it became part of the Purnell empire which stretched from Dursley , where John Purnell owned an iron works , across the Severn to Ayleford in the Forest of Dean where , in 1765 , his son William was running another wire works leased from his father . |
| 2 | Under the chairmanship of Juan Trippe PAA had rapidly increased its position in the 1930s , enjoying a monopoly on US flights across the Pacific to Japan and China , into Latin America , and over to Britain . |
| 3 | Many thousands of Chinese and Japanese came across the Pacific to California . |
| 4 | Further roads probably led north-east , past Credenhill , towards Leintwardine and Wroxeter , and south across the Wye to Abergavenny . |
| 5 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 6 | Manager Graeme Souness takes his squad across the Mersey to Tranmere tonight looking for a confidence-boosting display before the weekend showdown with Howard Wilkinson 's champions . |
| 7 | We sailed across the Aegean to Izmir , which till recently had been called Smyrna ; and the captain told me how , a few years earlier , as he entered the port , his ship had nosed her way through the floating corpses of Greeks massacred by the Turks . |
| 8 | Of the extant examples the best known in Italy is the Acqua Claudia ( meaning the eighth ) built A.D. 36–50 from Subiaco across the Campagna to Rome . |
| 9 | Karadjordje , the Metropolitan of Belgrade , Leontius , and many of the Serbian leaders fled across the Danube to Zemun , and some found refuge in the Orthodox monasteries in the Fruška Gora , where the prečani ( = across the river ) Serbs kept alive the culture and traditions of Serbdom . |
| 10 | At that hour a cab would be ages getting through the twisting streets of the old city and across the Thames to Rotherhithe . |
| 11 | Its 24-hour-a-day , satellite-directed tentacles now wrap themselves around the entire Spanish-speaking world from the USA to the southern tip of Argentina and across the Atlantic to Spain in an effort to duplicate the success of the North American Cable News Network in the English-speaking world . |
| 12 | One has only to look across the Atlantic to Canada , where similar government policies shattered a once-successful Canadian pharmaceuticals industry . |
| 13 | It will emerge in a ‘ shocking pink ’ colour scheme , and then be ferried across the Atlantic to White Waltham where it will be based prior to the race . |
| 14 | Of the three hundred Americans on board , anxious to get back across the Atlantic to safety , twenty-eight were among more than a hundred people drowned . |
| 15 | Along with hundreds of other children , Dinah and Clifford Matthews from Totten in Hampshire , were shipped across the Atlantic to safety . |
| 16 | Starting in the Solent last September , across the Atlantic to Rio . |
| 17 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |