Example sentences of "and [adv] across the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces . |
| 2 | In the morning I went ashore with the captain in a bumboat , passing a variety of small craft that plied to and fro across the straits . |
| 3 | Wallis never forgot how Minton , whilst painting this portrait , skipped to and fro across the floorboards at Shaftesbury Villas ‘ like some lean fencer with his long brush stabbing at the canvas ’ , all the while throwing out the liveliest sallies . |
| 4 | Prostates , bypasses , hip replacements and renal surgery swung to and fro across the table . |
| 5 | They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships . |
| 6 | He found that he could n't remain seated while she was striding to and fro across the office . |
| 7 | Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of Bermuda , goodwill surged to and fro across the Atlantic . |
| 9 | Incidentally , this picture of the working of Ashington suggests all sorts of local routes to and fro across the parish in performing these various activities . |
| 10 | It is the same all down the Welsh border , from Cheshire down to the Severn , and thence across the Severn to the three south-western counties of Somerset , Devon and Cornwall . |
| 11 | Through Master Control the programme was fed to the network and thence across the continent . |
| 12 | Smallfry peeled off her gloves and moved slowly and elegantly across the kitchen . |
| 13 | The two boys walked quickly and secretly across the road towards the old gentleman . |
| 14 | He lay in bed all afternoon with the light of the summer sky travelling up the walls and slowly across the ceiling . |
| 15 | Not only were limestones deposited in Europe as far south as Cantabria and right across the Mid-West , they also went a lot farther . |
| 16 | tavernas , and cafés and right across the water is Albania . |
| 17 | The dead eye was shuttered under a black patch held by a cord that went under one ear then reappeared , coming out of the hairline and down across the forehead . |
| 18 | The cockerel stood braced , shrilling its cry out into the mist , answering other calls from other compounds up and down across the hillside . |
| 19 | Without waiting for Chuck he strode off in the direction taken by the herd , and halfway across the grassland he let out a roar and dropped to his knees . |
| 20 | The aim of the system is to enable travellers to reach the core of the city centre by rail systems in a way that is not possible now , to facilitate movements across the city centre and thus across the city , to persuade travellers to shift from car travel to public transport thus relieving road congestion , and to facilitate the revitalisation of the city centre . |
| 21 | The apartments we 've selected , exclusive to Club guests , include the Palmyra , Mega , Yannis and Minos and are all close to each other and just across the road from the beach with fabulous views over the bay of Ipsos . |
| 22 | Close to the beautiful Mirabell Gardens and just across the river from the Old Town , the Salzburg Sheraton is rated as one of the city 's best hotels . |
| 23 | And just across the street was an auction room . |
| 24 | In merry companionship both men braved the hardship of the landlord 's sleeping arrangements and settled for the night , chatting idly and humorously across the partition like schoolboys in a dormitory . |
| 25 | He hesitated before her a moment , and then he took her hands and bent his head , and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship ; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips , he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees . |
| 26 | He came slowly and deliberately across the fields to the back door . |
| 27 | Not only did the king have a spare hour for what turned out to be an excellent interview in the palace gardens , but on learning that there was now no plane to take us home until Monday , laid on two helicopters to take us all on a Sunday outing to Petra ( the ‘ rose red city half as old as time ’ ) , then on to Aqaba on the Red Sea for lunch and a swim , and home across the desert and the black tents of the Bedouins in the evening . |
| 28 | Make it a habit to move your eyes smoothly and rapidly across the page , continuing from one line to another without a break . |
| 29 | He rounded a corner , passing three children kicking a football back and forth across the road . |
| 30 | A six-pack of beer , which someone had forgotten to stow away , slid back and forth across the cabin floor , over and over again . |