Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sort of economic and social domination that goes on across the whole family . |
| 2 | He stopped , mouth agape , gazing down across the Sound where Luch up on the roof was pointing . |
| 3 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 4 | The erm we 're gon na , we 're gon na make a drive bit that goes in across where the lawn is now |
| 5 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 6 | We moved on across the island to see the kittiwakes ' colony and yet more puffins , this time with beakfulls of fish returning to their nesting burrows . |
| 7 | True four-wheel drive vehicles or those with time for a 30-kilometre trek could have probably made it , but we , having neither time nor lockable differentials , carried on across the edge of Mývatnsöræfi , a huge featureless desert of lava and ash fields . |
| 8 | looked on across a fence . |
| 9 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 10 | Only when the cane cracked down across his hand did the boy 's nerve fail . |
| 11 | The spar crashed down across the cabin top in a tangle of twisted stays and halyards . |
| 12 | That was the image that obsessed him : Nut , bent over across the sky , swallowing the sun , trapping Geb under her . |
| 13 | Guido simply winked back at her and told Silvia with a smile , as he headed off across the garden , ‘ Be sure to show her the games room while you 're at it . |
| 14 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 15 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |
| 16 | We lined up across the street and he said : ‘ You keep in line and if you knock anyone down , leave him and keep going . ’ |
| 17 | We would line up across the parade ground , shoulder to shoulder , and in a slow forward walk , eyes fixed on the ground , would pick up any cigarette ends or pieces of paper on the gravel . |
| 18 | With patterned fabric , the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain . |
| 19 | ‘ Just check the car , ’ Estabrook said , taking some satisfaction in the thought of sending Chant back across the no-man 's land between here and the perimeter . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm far too tired to start driving back across town now . |
| 21 | Recently built , this attractive gasthof stands back across the road from the gondola lift which gives access to the Brandstadl mountain . |
| 22 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |
| 23 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 24 | Clutching the sheet , letting a great hollow groan escape me , I staggered back across the room . |
| 25 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 26 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 27 | ONE MORNING EARLY IN JUNE , BETWEEN DAWN AND SUNRISE , THE headman stood on his roof and shouted out across the village that today they would build the temporary bridge over the main river and that one man from each household was needed . |
| 28 | It looks out across wide lawns to mild uneventful Northamptonshire countryside , and the private road which runs in front of it winds down into Hulcote , a beauti — ful horseshoe-shaped model village built around a generous green . |
| 29 | The hotel 's spacious restaurant looks out across the broad sun terrace and offers well-supervised cuisine with a choice of both typical local specialities and international cooking . |
| 30 | 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 . |