Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | looked on across a fence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 5 | It will be tested on TVS before being rolled out across other regions , and success is being monitored on a cost-per-response basis through an 0800 number . |
| 6 | Conference , these statistics have been proved in one small area of the United Kingdom , the results if the same exercise was carried out across the length and breadth of the country would be frightening . |
| 7 | Up to 20 of the bogus MOT certificates have turned up across the province in the last year , prompting a major investigation by detectives . |
| 8 | The topsoil could then be pushed back across the site and to all appearances undisturbed agricultural land was left . |
| 9 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 10 | Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants , while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted . |
| 11 | Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy . |
| 12 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 13 | Slowly at first , then ever more rapidly , she was drawn out across the lake . |
| 14 | The perennial fascination of Karajan 's 1954 recordings of Mozart 's Così fan tutte and Strauss 's Ariadne auf Naxos lies partly in the exquisitely cast singing and playing , partly in the use Legge and Karajan made of studio conditions to create performances of radical intimacy , the music-making addressed to the microphone and the private listener rather than belted out across some putative theatrical footlights . |
| 15 | Oh they 're all lit up across their car . |
| 16 | Sprawled out across it were a rabble of Russian fugitives , whilst ahead a thin dark line of guns crept foot by foot towards the safety of the opposite shore . |
| 17 | Desire is played out across flesh . |
| 18 | The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged . |
| 19 | Doyle was flung back across the table , a milk bottle exploding in the bag he held across his chest . |
| 20 | By this time the crowd following the marchers had spilled out across the roadway , effectively breaking the ban on a march within the city walls . |
| 21 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 22 | His face had turned quite pale and beads of perspiration had broken out across his forehead . |
| 23 | With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals . |
| 24 | Forest fires have broken out across Indonesia , causing widespread air pollution and disruption of air and sea transport . |
| 25 | Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced . |
| 26 | I have done the route a dozen or more times since that distant autumn , and although I know it is ‘ easy ’ I have never set off across that huge ceiling without a feeling of apprehension . |
| 27 | The present writer was co-ordinator of the UUUC ‘ Advice and Relief Centres ’ of which several hundred had been set up across the country . |
| 28 | It is looking to open further offices abroad too , to complement the distributor network it has set up across Western Europe , the Pacific Rim and Australia . |
| 29 | Once again , a special link can be set up across the project teams ; in this example allowing Sally to access all of Frank 's modules . |
| 30 | At these low temperatures the dipolar molecules of this supercooled water become ordered in such a way that a repulsive force is set up across voids . |