Example sentences of "as we [vb past] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see the tiny figures of Harvey and myself moving on two of the screens as we walked across the floor . |
| 2 | As we drifted across the river , their cox first shouted a warning , then ordered the crew to angle their oars to avoid fouling the punt . |
| 3 | ‘ We discussed the dogs , which were all around us as we went across the fields and mountains . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's the Sir Mauger Grindlewood — East India Company , ’ she said as we came across another old buffer in stone with a bad smell under his nose . |
| 5 | As we looked across the water to Corinth and listened to the haunting bouzouki music I saw why so many people return year after year to Poseidon . |
| 6 | I held her to me as we fell across the bed , feeling her lithe life-force twitching against me as beautiful as a rainbow trout , leaping from a mill race into my outstretched arms . |
| 7 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 8 | It was late afternoon as we drove across north eastern France through the Pas de Calais , past the fields and along the poplar-lined avenues where twice in one century the German Army had invaded . |
| 9 | It was raining hard as we drove across Edinburgh to C & R Agencies , another important account . |
| 10 | Small 's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields . |
| 11 | I wondered as we strolled across the lawn whether he might not in fact turn out to be the last King of Tonga , the final member of a brief and moderately distinguished dynasty . |
| 12 | As we clambered across the rubble towards him , our 12-year-old boy in 1976 knew that the nearest tank was only 300 yards away . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 15 | Two rope lengths later we regretted our haste as we teetered across a steep snow patch barring the way to a secondary ridge , climbed by a series of cracks and strenuous pulls . |
| 16 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |