Example sentences of "[to-vb] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their role was to clear the Channel of the Dutch and English fleets , before returning to escort across the invasion army in its transports . |
| 2 | Here it will be less likely to pull across the pavement into the road . |
| 3 | Caribou herds , formerly subject to severe hunting , continue to wander across the North American tundra subject to much lighter hunting pressures and non-intrusive human management . |
| 4 | Six towns of different sizes were selected for the research , representing different regions , different traffic situations and thus together representing the diversity of problems that one would expect to find across the country . |
| 5 | That eerie keening , like the cry of a great predator , was used by shepherds to communicate across the vast wind-swept spaces in which they lived and worked . |
| 6 | The sound was so terrific the trains seemed to pass across the end of the bed , and we drew up our feet instinctively . |
| 7 | Was n't he the kid who used to dash across the road , back in Wellport ? |
| 8 | The technique is to stand across the seat and swing the adze backwards and forwards between your legs removing a shaving every time , without digging into the wood and stopping the tool . |
| 9 | He was , he said , one of that small group of political eccentrics who browsed around the dustbins of policy hoping occasionally to come across the word ‘ science ’ : |
| 10 | The amateur collector is most likely to come across the cycad foliage , with its characteristic narrow central rib and flat leaflets . |
| 11 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 12 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 13 | Jennie instructed Katharine to come across the diagonal and on each third canter stride to ask for a flying change , which would result , ( hopefully ! ) in a change of leg every fourth stride . |
| 14 | Then , too , the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper . |
| 15 | ‘ Aye , he used to look out for his dad 's cart on a Saturday at about 4.45 and he 'd wait for it to come across the line there . |
| 16 | Turn to a risk-taking , entrepreneurial company and you are likely to come across the converse of the structure theme : |
| 17 | It is a mild puzzle at first , to come across the young river Adour flowing from south to north down its valley , when you last saw it flowing from east to west into the ocean at Bayonne . |
| 18 | He just did not expect to come across the late Norman Britton in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin at half past six in the evening . |
| 19 | The body bold to come across the clearings and at last the the fox is really there . |
| 20 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 21 | Footsteps began to crunch across the frozen rock towards the entrance . |
| 22 | As the path flattened out to lead across the close turf to the house Leonora 's feet slowed . |
| 23 | At 2.30 a.m. a concentration of four hundred guns opened on a front of eight hundred yards , and the barrage began to march across the minefields and defences at a pace of one hundred yards in three minutes . |
| 24 | Mr Usherwood , managing director , hopes the Middlesbrough shop will be the first of a succession of satellite depots to open across the NorthEast . |
| 25 | To dwell across the sea , |
| 26 | Chelsea might have increased their lead 15 minutes later , but Wise elected to shoot across the face of goal rather than pull the ball back to the well-positioned Fleck . |
| 27 | He uses his right arm to reach across the chrome and glass coffee table in front of us . |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Langham would have to reach across the table , surely impossible . |
| 29 | She was inclining her head , and nodding periodically , but her fidgeting fingers gave Lee the confidence to wave across the room and catch her attention . |
| 30 | A second focus for integration has been through the design of materials based on one subject discipline but specifically planned to feed across the curriculum . |