Example sentences of "they across " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empires failed on our mother planet — how much more philosophically untenable are they across a dozen , a hundred , a thousand , a thousand thousand planets ? |
| 2 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 3 | Amanda stood up again , crossed the room , took a blue bowl of chrysanths from the coffee table and carried them across the room to the dresser . |
| 4 | ‘ Yoo-hoo ! ’ yelled Jack in Wild Western imitation , but his voice tailed away as Inspector Burden of Kingsmarkham CID emerged from Queen Street and approached them across the forecourt of the Olive and Dove . |
| 5 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 6 | But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone . |
| 7 | A hurricane lamp and a pinpoint of light from a torch were all the girls had to guide them across the sleepers and rails . |
| 8 | Jake ferried them across the ford on his cart with horse and master enjoying a paddle . |
| 9 | ‘ The owner of the castle would put his family into a boat and row them across the lake to church every Sunday . |
| 10 | To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule . |
| 11 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 12 | A young woman with large breasts paraded them across a football field and immediately got a job of modelling double-breasted clothes . |
| 13 | They rode to Queensferry and persuaded the master boatman , against his better judgement , to ferry them across the Firth of Forth to Inverkeithing . |
| 14 | She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience , and fling them across the parade . |
| 15 | They then either flush the rabbits by tapping two sticks together or by dragging a long line between them across the field or fields towards the net . |
| 16 | In the evening of Valentine 's Day , do take two white oak leaves , and lay them across your pillow , when you go to bed , putting on a clean shift or shirt , and turning it the wrong side outwards , lay down and say these words aloud , ‘ Good Valentine be kind to me , in dreams let me my true love see . ’ |
| 17 | As she listened it seemed to rise in intensity so that she could imagine , with an agreeable frisson of simulated terror , that the low friable cliffs had finally crumbled and that the white foaming turbulence was rolling towards them across Alex 's face . |
| 18 | ‘ Put four on each bench and if there are any over , spread them across the rows of chairs at the front and at the back . |
| 19 | In the early 1890s thieves stole cattle in an area of Anuradhapura which bordered on Kurunagala , drove them across the district border , carried out false sales there with the help of some headmen , and sent the animals to the Colombo slaughterhouse . |
| 20 | Vernage slashed them across the throat and chest with his wood knife and fled , but the officers managed to radio for help and within hours both men were captured . |
| 21 | After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch . |
| 22 | Not even when she had Andrew Jean and the others cut out a couple of the pioneers and pizza them across the two-lane blacktop . |
| 23 | When some moss has stuck , each tit collects spiders ' webs and stretches them across the moss . |
| 24 | Ball believes that PowerLan is particularly suited to users that want the option of growing their networks and interlinking them across different systems , and that these facilities will be enough to distinguish it from its competitors . |
| 25 | But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation . |
| 26 | The hounds , however , having wriggled under and through the gate , were still running , streaming away from them across the next field as the fox headed for the nearby covert . |
| 27 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 28 | This memory draws them across several hundred miles of ocean , brings them to a particular bay and , as the scent gets stronger and stronger , up one special river and into one particular stream . |
| 29 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 30 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |