Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | They ranged across the political spectrum from rightwing conservatives to left-wing socialists . |
| 12 | As we wandered across the Széchenyi Bridge towards my hotel , László pointed out that in the last days of the Nazi occupation , Admiral Horthy had protected the Budapest Jews . |
| 13 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 14 | She wandered across the concourse to the Travellers ' Fare buffet and sat warming her hands around a cup of coffee while she waited for her train to arrive . |
| 15 | He pocketed his winnings and wandered across the room towards Lorton . |
| 16 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 17 | Abandoning the kitchen , she wandered across the large living-room to the windows . |
| 18 | Zurich : Selected blue chips saw high turnover as shares firmed across the board . |
| 19 | A first-half try by Queensland flier Paul Carozza was quickly countered by Warbler Eric Rush and despite Rush adding a second , Carozza scorched across the sand pitch to bring the Australians back to 10–8 before completing his hat-trick . |
| 20 | They wove across the metallic dunes , submerging themselves like roots , surfacing again , twitching , throbbing sluggishly . |
| 21 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 22 | Reluctantly , and without much enthusiasm , Blair clambered down the river bank and waded across the stream . |
| 23 | Carson waded across the newspaper on the undrained floor and climbed the concrete stairway into the night . |
| 24 | They dispatched their excess female baggage at the Strand Gate where the Sheriff was closing in on them , and then headed across the quicksands to Rye , where they left their horses and disappeared among the labyrinth of smuggler 's passageways that honeycombed the cobbled streets . |
| 25 | Others were appearing on the scene to lend help in forming a crowd , but Jude ignored their stares and headed across the street , Marlin at her side . |
| 26 | Suddenly all the characters find themselves in an ‘ aerobrain ’ headed across the Atlantic toward San Fransisco , with a stop-over in Atlanta en route . |
| 27 | For there was tenderness in him , no doubt about that , Lisa reflected as they reached the foot of the path and headed across the rocky moonlit beach , his arm around her waist as though nothing could be more natural . |
| 28 | Ronni had followed Guido from the room , running to keep pace with him as he headed across the hall . |
| 29 | John Hendrie headed on a Ripley cross but Wilkinson headed across the face of the goal . |
| 30 | Goalkeeper Andy Goram hoisted a long punt down field , McCoist headed across the edge of the box and the much-travelled striker spun onto his left foot to hammer the ball into the far corner . |