Example sentences of "they [vb base] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sear across the ice , moving in unison as if some magnetic force holds them together . |
| 2 | ‘ Two , but they sleep across the courtyard , above the storerooms . |
| 3 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 4 | Bouleversed , as they say across the Channel . |
| 5 | And secondly , you 'll get a greater , obviously a greater amount of litter , because they do eat as they walk across the sites . |
| 6 | They spread across the opening to the valley that was called Jackley Plain , and there Roger Morgan could go no further . |
| 7 | Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals . |
| 8 | Where these latter principles of differentiation are coterminous with certain aspects of the division of labour ( and with each other ) , the chances of formation of a politically pertinent collectivity within the ‘ division of labour grid ’ may be increased ( e.g. ‘ working class ’ catholics in the west of Scotland as a traditional Labour Party support-base ) ; where they cut across the division of labour the chances may be diminished ( the difficulty of developing ‘ class ’ politics in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 9 | They can be conveniently categorized as concordant or discordant depending on whether or not they cut across the bedding of the pre-existing strata ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 10 | The model being offered here suggests that far from merely being tools or means , they to a large extent constitute our stances in and towards the world ; in this sense , they lie across the base of the pyramid in Figure 2.1 . |
| 11 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
| 12 | Other easily recognised Balanchine signatures can be seen in passages marked Stretto where his dancers stab their toes into the floor as they travel across the stage in posés attitudes devant or à la seconde . |
| 13 | The rafts wo n't win any design awards , but they get across the lake . |
| 14 | Another dhāmi has joined him and they link arms for a while and then move closer together , stretching their arms across each other 's shoulders so they dance as one , their bodies tilting first forwards and then back as they bounce across the roof . |
| 15 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 16 | Frodo and Sam feel their presence three times as they wander across the Emyn Muil and the Dead Marshes , at II , 213 , 237 , and 242 , i.e. on the 29th February , 1st March and 4th March . |
| 17 | For months , motorists have been mesmerised by the advancing army of ‘ mushrooms ’ as they march across the city . |
| 18 | They dash across the road and prepare for battle . |
| 19 | When inhaled , the aromatic molecules of essential oils reach the lungs from where they diffuse across the air sacs into the surrounding blood capillaries ( which lie just under the surface of the sacs ) and eventually find their way into the main blood vessels from where they circulate in the blood and exert their therapeutic effect . |
| 20 | Listeners can help by asking the stammerer whether they 'd like gaps in sentences filled when they come across a particularly difficult word . |
| 21 | Until , that is , they come across an ambush of British Officer Heyward , Steven Waddington with upper lip as stiff as an ironing board , and his two charges Cora and Alice Munro ( Madeleine Stowe and Jodhi May ) , the daughters of a commanding officer of a far-flung fort . |
| 22 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 23 | It also gives them protection as they venture across the open plains of sand , where there are no hiding places . |