Example sentences of "[vb base] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 2 | We fly across the world without a thought for Orville Wright , and whoever remembers Daguerre when taking their holiday snaps ? |
| 3 | ‘ Or do you think we can grow wings and fly across the Greshorns ? ’ |
| 4 | The abbey is a veritable city in itself ; its granges , buildings and outhouses sprawl across the countryside , circled by a huge curtain wall which is guarded by soldiers wearing the livery of the royal household . |
| 5 | Local transport : Lake steamers , car ferries and hydro foils ply across the lake , while buses drive round it on a regular basis . |
| 6 | I linger across the street , looking up at it . |
| 7 | I linger across the road from the Asda , watching the carpark . |
| 8 | times Snaith was a busy port with a harbour and ferry across the river to Selby , one of the few Aire crossings in the area . |
| 9 | Otherwise , by calling the dog , you may encourage it to simply stand up and then race across the ground . |
| 10 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 11 | Bouleversed , as they say across the Channel . |
| 12 | These findings are consistent with a model involving Na + dependent HCO 3 - accumulation by the cell across the basolateral membrane and HCO 3 - exit across the apical membrane via Cl - /HCO 3 - exchange , the accumulated Cl - recycling via apical membrane Cl - channels . |
| 13 | Possible alternative mechanisms for HCO 3 - exit across the apical membrane include HCO 3 - permeable channels and Na - -HCO 3 - co-transport . |
| 14 | Alternatively , HCO 3 - secretion may be induced via activation of basolateral Na + /H + secretion may be induced via activation of basolateral Na + /H + exchange or Na + -HCO &- co-transport , resulting in cellular HCO 3 - accumulation and thereby increasing the driving force for HCO 3 - exit across the apical membrane . |
| 15 | ‘ Two , but they sleep across the courtyard , above the storerooms . |
| 16 | This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground . |
| 17 | I slip across the floor and stand in the corner of the room , so I 'll be away from , but behind , the kitchen door when they open it . |
| 18 | Oh , I felt tempted to wander , to spend one day , one night in my old haunts or slip across the river to the stews and brothels of Southwark but Benjamin insisted I follow my own advice . |
| 19 | ( Neurotransmitters are chemicals that leap across the gaps between nerve cells to transmit messages in the central nervous system . ) |
| 20 | Babur also understands the mild-mannered little men who tolerate their wives ' infidelities for twenty years and then one day they simply leap across the room and strangle her and saw her head off with the breadknife and put her bit by bit down the rubbish disposal , serves the fucking slut right , the sloppy slag trollop . |
| 21 | Second , it is not true that girls underachieve across the board in education . |
| 22 | Taken together , they offered a picture of humanity in millennia to come — spread across the galaxy , with Earth but a distant memory — yet still in thrall to its sublunary nature . |
| 23 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 24 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 25 | Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students . |
| 26 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 27 | They spread across the opening to the valley that was called Jackley Plain , and there Roger Morgan could go no further . |
| 28 | When an action potential reaches a synapse it releases the neurotransmitters which spread across the synapse to reach the next , or postsynaptic , nerve cell . |
| 29 | You should see them — they were ringing the Castle round when I came away , and making themselves fires for the night on Cnoc na Lude across the Tilt . |
| 30 | listen across the columns |