Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] across [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can occur associated with ridge and furrow and village earthworks , but they are more widespread on upland areas like Dartmoor , where hundreds of them are scattered across the upland pasture . |
| 2 | I 'm going across the board on this one . |
| 3 | I 'll never forget old , about two days I 'd been there , and I 'm going across the square and I see this bloke with sombreal on , so I did flung him up a salute cos that was wrong , he says come here |
| 4 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 5 | ‘ There were these headlights coming up behind us and we tried to brake , but we hit a dog and I was thrown across the road and my arms and legs hurt and there was all blood everywhere , it was horrible . ’ |
| 6 | I was walking across the car park when someone jumped on my back . |
| 7 | I was walking across the garden after breakfast , enjoying the clear wintry air , when suddenly my body was again torn by those indescribable feelings which I always experienced after a dose of the drug . |
| 8 | He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran . |
| 9 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 10 | It 's like I leapt up and pulled the curtains , and you were left across the street , peering from your darkened upstairs window at the moonlight on our wall . |
| 11 | She 's swimming across the canal ! ’ |
| 12 | Even in Danish the brusque instruction was unmistakable as she was propelled across a threshold and with a fast movement of one strong arm sent revolving into a circle which ended when one of her calves struck the bed and she sat down heavily on its soft surface . |
| 13 | These were the smells she was sending across the city … |
| 14 | She was sprawled across the viewport , clinging to nothing , staring in at them . |
| 15 | And then the Larch moved back , and Fenella clung to its poor torn branches and the sticky evil effluence melted back , and there was a horrid oozing clutching feeling , and then she was pulled across the floor , and she was free . |
| 16 | She was agitated ; she was walking across the lawn instead of to the gate . ’ |
| 17 | Now , she was walking across the room when she farted , and her father said , ‘ Did you whisper ? ’ |
| 18 | Then , like a dam bursting , suddenly she was diving across the room , a sob escaping from her lips as she reached out to snatch it up . |
| 19 | She was thrown across the room and received minor injuries but was saved from serious injury by the operation of a circuit breaker . |
| 20 | She was slashed across the throat once by a man with a Stanley knife believed to have been bought earlier at a stall . |
| 21 | At lunchtime she was taken across the road to the paper 's local , The Cross Keys , to meet the gang , at which initiation she remembered in particular a short , genial , Punch-like ‘ ex-RAF type ’ ( as he liked to call himself ) named Arthur Eperon , who later became a well-known travel writer . |
| 22 | We are looking across the carriage from the right hand doorway ; the interior surface of the open door is at the right , and in the centre are the front windows . |
| 23 | I do believe there is a feeling of real excitement and expectation amongst your generation because of the extraordinary changes we are seeing across the world . |
| 24 | Can we get help , for the best possible start , we want , something like that , so we 're saying , help us to do this , that 's how we 're getting across the idea they 're erm , how they 're going about it . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're walking across the floor . |
| 26 | Note that if we were looking across the board from left to right the rig would still be relatively upright , as it is being pushed well forwards thereby supplying maximum power . |
| 27 | When my tour ended we were taken across the route to Damascus in the Nairn transport . |
| 28 | If we were to come across an object the like of which we had never before encountered , we would be in no position to determine whether it was an artefact or not , or to conclude with certainty that it had actually been designed and made by human beings . |
| 29 | I accept that , but none of the other districts are g are are making the point that 's Selby 's making , that the level of unemployment that they are encountering across the economy , not necessarily just in this sector of the economy , justifies the doubling of the of the of the allocation put forward . |
| 30 | they are calling across the base of the ocean |