Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges . |
| 2 | She had vaguely noticed Adele 's startled , anxious face , before she was shoved roughly across the threshold of Matilda 's chamber to be confronted by the Empress , the Sheriff and the one man who thought Matilda could do no wrong — Brien fitzCount , Lord of Wallingford , who , except for her half-brother , was the Empress 's most devoted follower and , some said , her lover . |
| 3 | He went missing one night when she was sleeping soundly across the hut from me , being under the mistaken impression that he and his crew had been grounded because of an electrical fault in their aircraft . |
| 4 | If those pressures exist , as the hon. Gentleman asserts , they are spread evenly across the system and do not affect one institution more than another . |
| 5 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 6 | It was interesting , I thought , that as far as they were able in their maybe four-foot-wide stalls , most of them were standing diagonally across the space , the better to deal with the motion ; and they all looked alert and interested , sure signs of contentment . |
| 7 | That night , she 'd said , ‘ If you 'd come out the Quindale way you 'd never 've got through ; it 's flooded right across the road from Briar Farm to the old water tower , three feet deep , burst water main , ’ and Luke had said , ‘ Yeah , ’ and gone out to the kitchen to raid the fridge . |
| 8 | It is located just across the road from the gondola lift which climbs the Brandstadl mountain , and a 10 to 15 minute walk from the village centre . |
| 9 | Suppose manufacturer A has for some years produced a razor which will not normally cut the user unless it is slid sideways across the skin . |
| 10 | It was needed in Britain and it was needed right across the British Empire . |
| 11 | He was leaning forward across the table , staring at me with a sort of frustrated belligerence . |
| 12 | He was driving now across the open headland towards the fringe of pine trees which bordered the North Sea . |
| 13 | ‘ When I found him , ’ said Charlotte , ‘ he was lying right across the path . ’ |
| 14 | He was staring vacantly across the lodge ; Tallis leaned forward slightly to watch him , but he did n't see her . |