Example sentences of "[verb] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flies zigzagged across the room , speeding about their business like bees in swarm . |
| 2 | Fighting down an abrupt rush of fear as she zigzagged across the stone floor to avoid the rifle fire , Benny pulled out one of the small plastic sample bags she always carried , and dropped the paper on to which she had copied the drum 's label into it . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , ’ Erika shouted across the bedlam on the line . |
| 4 | She went to the edge of the roof and shouted across the village at the unnamed thief that for this he 'd be struck with paralysis ; that he 'd be smitten with cholera and die : that unless he owned up and returned the cockerel , the gods would punish his family with poverty and starvation for ever . |
| 5 | Doyle shouted across the intervening distance . |
| 6 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 7 | His remarks would recur as he shouted across the streets to the snobbish people of Chichester . |
| 8 | When the revolution came , artists and students continued their association , with artists designing many of the posters that students plastered across the city . |
| 9 | He had thinning dyed hair plastered across the top of his head , and his clothes were loud , his hands fleshy . |
| 10 | There was no ticket , but there was a big sticker plastered across the windscreen . |
| 11 | A leaking roof , cobwebs slung across the rooms like hammocks , moss growing on the walls . |
| 12 | The men sheltered under a tarpaulin slung across the corner of the barge . |
| 13 | I picked up a towel off the floor — it was still damp — and his ordinary clothes , the creaseless grey flannels and aged corduroy jacket which he wore day in , day out , were slung across the bed . |
| 14 | She eased on her jacket when the taxi came and sprawled on the back seat , watching the garlands of Christmas lights slung across the streets . |
| 15 | Or have no window treatment at all except glass shelves full of plants , or plants hanging from the ceiling or from poles slung across the window . |
| 16 | Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services . |
| 17 | A small crowd had gathered and she had been carried across the street and inside the nearest shop in order to get her out of the sun . |
| 18 | THE MAYOR OF RICHMOND BEING CARRIED ACROSS THE RIVER SWALE ( Page 88 ) |
| 19 | His voice now carried across the quay to the boat , interfering with the sombre piped music . |
| 20 | Stephen 's remarks must have carried across the room , but his sister showed no reaction to the conversation . |
| 21 | The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids . |
| 22 | A spokesman said : ‘ Some are in mint condition , carried across the Andes by mule train 250 years ago . ’ |
| 23 | But the complication of such an operation would be considerable ; and it is reasonable to say that the entire population of the Pacific nations , even if they inhabit the Atlantic seaboard , can make use of the goods that are carried across the Pacific Ocean . |
| 24 | An alternative is that the pipes were carried across the valleys from higher ground on the far side by means of high ( and now completely vanished ) aqueducts . |
| 25 | The cooing calls of eider ducks carried across the bay ‘ Ooooooo-OO-oo , ooooooo-OO-oo . ’ |
| 26 | First , the vector is transformed to a frame in free fall at P and in that frame it is carried across the interval without change of its Cartesian coordinates . |
| 27 | The dream was fading , images of the Royal Deer Park and horse-drawn carriages dissolving , the anticipation of three more nights spent in Rune 's arms melting away as Suzie 's muted sobs carried across the distance between them . |
| 28 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 29 | In a pendentive method of construction the triangular spaces between the square section and the circular base of the hemisphere are built as if they are parts of a lower and larger dome so that their section is like that of an arch carried across the diagonal of the square space to be covered . |
| 30 | They ranged across the political spectrum from rightwing conservatives to left-wing socialists . |