Example sentences of "across the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her way up the west stair , which led , it so happened , past Sarah 's rooms , she saw a light in the business room across the courtyard in the east wing . |
| 2 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |
| 3 | One user , in his thirties with a vast experience of illegal drug use , came across the drug in this way . |
| 4 | The millionaire sat forward in his chair to show his concern , rubbing one hand across the other in his lap . |
| 5 | Across the road in a secure compound are the buildings that house the mostly out-of-state blacklegs . |
| 6 | They saw Cipollini , a winner five times this season , lead Abdoujaparov with 50 yards to go before veering across the road in a blatant attempt to block the approach of the Tashkent rider . |
| 7 | A pair of partridges whirred across the road in front of her , and Winnie remembered that Ella had told her that they mated for life . |
| 8 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 9 | The car park was so full that upon my visits to the hospital I now parked across the road in a garden centre . |
| 10 | ‘ Not very gallant , ’ Lefevre pointed out , ‘ to make her traipse across the road in this weather . |
| 11 | Across the road in the centre of the village , are two stones from Points Hicks in Australia , the first place on that continent to be sighted on Cook 's first great voyage . |
| 12 | The creature with the scarf was across the road in a crowd of shoppers . |
| 13 | One of these , which you can go round , is known now as the Maison Louis XIV , because that remarkable king lodged there in 1660 when he came to Saint-Jean to be married to Maria Theresa , the Infant a of Spain ( the bride stayed across the road in a charming pink brick and stone house known ever since as the Maison de l'lnfante ) . |
| 14 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 15 | As she peered ahead of her , something shot across the road in front of the car , forcing her to brake sharply . |
| 16 | And the child runs across the road in front of the lorry . |
| 17 | As for people in Leeds being sick of the Manc hype , people in Manchester are sick of the Manc hype and have been for as long as people from Leeds have been tramping across the moors in their flares and Kickers to buy ‘ God created Manchester ’ tops and to dance at the Haçienda . |
| 18 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 19 | At least the German infantry wo n't be attacking us from across the field in front of our positions , as long as this barrage keeps up . |
| 20 | I clambered over the wall and dropped on the other side and made my way quickly across the field in the direction of the cottage . |
| 21 | Shiny new office blocks across the Hudson in New Jersey are a constant temptation . |
| 22 | They stand or sit on thin irregular lines painted across the black in a white which has somewhat faded . |
| 23 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 24 | On everything , house , garden , terrace , green slopes , water , old oaks , fern , moss , woods again , and far away across the openings in the prospect , to the distance lying wide before us with a purple bloom upon it , there seemed to be such undisturbed repose . |
| 25 | Bob Roberts , which opens in Britain on Friday , will play in 1,000 cinemas across the US in the crucial last stages of the campaign . |
| 26 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 27 | Singapore : Shares closed firmer across the board in active trade , with the Straits Times index 8.17 points higher at 1,413.15 . |
| 28 | But responsive , strategic managership is absent across the board in Britain . |
| 29 | This ‘ three hits ’ principle applies across the board in communication , but it takes effort . |
| 30 | However , GKR began to flourish in the early 1980s , not so much in financial services as across the board in industry . |