Example sentences of "[adv] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stock exchanges vary greatly across the EEC in terms of differences in volume , framework and trading mechanics . |
| 2 | Mrs Stych fixed her button eyes upon the elegant figure of Mrs Frizzell and bowled purposefully across the lawn . |
| 3 | They talked until the horses , squealing and nipping at each other , turned away to hurry purposefully across the field and stand afar , clouds of their breath plumed against the winter air . |
| 4 | Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish . |
| 5 | This is unlikely , as the absolute magnitude of these stars does not vary much across the dividing line , and in any case would not affect the xx ratio . |
| 6 | He moved with his usual lightning speed , slapping her brutally across the face . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 're here to see Adam , ’ Rourke said , as Lissa walked dazedly across the soot-blackened carpet , ‘ you 're in for a disappointment . |
| 8 | He also has a smart answer to the real big question about abduction — why exactly do these super-intelligent beings travel halfway across the universe in hi-tech spaceships to stick blunt instruments up people 's bottoms ? |
| 9 | But why exactly do these super-intelligent beings travel halfway across the universe in hi-tech spaceships to stick blunt instruments up people 's bottoms ? |
| 10 | It lay on Roman Watling Street , and had two old coaching-inns , each with enormous , elaborate wrought-iron signs which stretched halfway across the road . |
| 11 | She heard Tim give a shout and saw him stretch out an arm and point towards her , but she-had no fear of capture ; she was over halfway across the marsh . |
| 12 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 13 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 14 | Halfway across the Mediterranean , when the stewardess seemed oddly unresponsive to his overtures , he idly opened the file . |
| 15 | Halfway across the site , the earth is scorched , and the remnants of dwellings bear witness to a horrendous fire . |
| 16 | Green-skinned warriors will travel halfway across the Old World just to fight alongside a particularly powerful Warlord . |
| 17 | How do you share a date when your paramour is unavoidably detained on business in another town halfway across the country ? |
| 18 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 19 | But what sort of a man was it who could be kidnapped , bundled into a cart and made to lie on the floor under a rug with a gun at his head while being driven halfway across the city on a cold November afternoon — and then just calmly and quietly fall fast asleep ? |
| 20 | ‘ Am I to be dragged halfway across the country in a cart ? ’ |
| 21 | Halfway across the dock , however , there was a metallic scraping , and the sheet metal forming the outer skin of the oddly shaped bulges in the hull at deck level fell away . |
| 22 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ So it seems , ’ said Cadfael , and eyed the bushes that encroached halfway across the path . |
| 25 | Pushing aside the leaves , she saw him stop halfway across the lawn and bend his head to light a cigarette . |
| 26 | Next , mark the finished length from hemline , taken at a quarter of the way across the window ( FH ) , at a position halfway across the fabric . |
| 27 | Lee-Wright does n't shrink from naming names and one recognizes many familiar superstore products that originate from some fume-choked hovel halfway across the world . |
| 28 | halfway across the classroom , stretched |
| 29 | The rickety building rang like a gong , leapt off its foundations and was dragged halfway across the quarry before it fell apart in a shower of rust and smoke . |
| 30 | " Well , " he said , " we think we lose a lot of aircraft , because we have been monitoring quite a — few they just disappear from the radar screen 50 miles off the coast , sometimes more , sometimes halfway across the sea if they are making a dash far Flamborough Head . |