Example sentences of "[be] across [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're across the border . |
| 2 | " They 're across the street , standing in a doorway … and it 's starting to snow , " he said with a smile . |
| 3 | Once I 'm across the drawbridge and out of sight I 'll circle around and pick you up . |
| 4 | He moves like a streak of light , and seems to be across the kitchen and into Fizzy 's food as soon as the back door is opened . |
| 5 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 6 | Leith asked quickly , imagining Rosemary to be across the corridor and incapacitated in some way since Rosemary , who always arrived home from work first , invariably popped over if she wanted a chat . |
| 7 | gon na a be across the board ? |
| 8 | Well , er , it 's all according to whether they can afford it in the first instance , secondly , is it gon na be across the board ? |
| 9 | The next leg from Kupang would be across the Timor Sea , known for its sharkinfested waters . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's over there — he 'll be across the road before you catch him . ’ |
| 11 | Why it lay down er just down the road as you turned down to it used to be across the fields . |
| 12 | The German Army by this time must be across the Seine . |
| 13 | Before midday they were across the border into Luxembourg , surrounded by cliffs looming over the narrow serpentine road . |
| 14 | By the time we were across the road , he had the ten shilling note in his hand . |
| 15 | The front gates were across the road from where Harry had died . |
| 16 | And I remember , one afternoon , going out with the whole of the rating committee , to houses at Eastwood and Beeston , and other places , and m in effect measuring them by counting how many nine inch bricks they were across the front and back , to make sure that , you know , nobody was subsidizing anybody else . |
| 17 | Corbett heeded the warning , telling his companions to be most vigilant until they were across the Forth . |
| 18 | Jo-Ann and Maximilian and Willoughby were across the room , where visitors always sat . |
| 19 | They were across the room when Felipe came in , and Maggie was standing alone . |
| 20 | He moved his pelvis strongly against her own until she squirmed in his arms , then somehow they were across the room and he was forcing her down among the silk cushions of the four-poster , fingers already lifting the thin wool sweater beneath her unbuttoned jacket , seeking the pulsing softness of her breasts with the mark of desire across his face . |
| 21 | The elvish song is only analogous to a hymn as Gandalf is analogous to an angel ; Elbereth too is unlike ( say ) the Holy Ghost in remaining visible , to elves , and rememberable as a being by those elves like Galadriel who have been across the Sea and met her . |
| 22 | Two more , with Adam , had been across the river in the villages beneath the Long Mountain , in Leighton and Forden overlooking the river , and even into the hamlets that lay inland , in the high valley of the brook beyond . |
| 23 | Although the visitors ' centre at Furnace Creek , the scenically-stunning Zabriskie Point and the Death Valley National Monument are across the border in California , they are an easy drive from Las Vegas , the nearest major city . |
| 24 | The large swimming pool with extensive sun terraces are across the road next to the lake . |
| 25 | The farm buildings here are across the yard away from the gallery . |
| 26 | All the books are across the street . ’ |
| 27 | For in a similar vein to the criminal ‘ enemy ’ , the researcher 's activities are across the bounds , a challenge to be taken on , attacked , and , destroyed or at least to be denied . |
| 28 | That 's across the gardens of the palace you know ? |
| 29 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 30 | A Barra fisherman 's son , one of eight born to a couple who lived as squatters in a foreshore hut , ‘ was brought up in my grandfather 's across the road : ‘ I had everything in their house . |