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Sentence Examples He resided just across the road from Burke's Shop where he farmed his land. And last month, Bob, Zane was goose hunting in the field across the road and killed a snow goose. Then a man who lives across the road came flying into the shop, saying there had been a raid next door. Most days, the child is deposited on the pavement across the road as the mother sorts through the garbage. At the age of four, he went to a one-room nursery class attached to a private girls' school across the road from home. Powell, 20, was giving two girls a lift home when he drove too fast on a bend and suddenly veered across the road. On the drive back to Shelby a big buck deer jumped across the road only a few yards in front of us. The buildings across the road from the station are still there, the ones next to it are long gone. A mother living just across the road from the man's flat fears for the safety of her four young children. Walking back across the road I spat a mouthful of water onto the windscreen of Howard's commonwealth car. Twelve horses pulled the magnificent carriage across the road and through puddles of mud of varying size and depth. I used to wait till darkness came in, then I'd go across the road and get a carry-out. The oak tree across the road is practically bare but the beeches and hazels behind it are still fully leafed. In Coventry two police officers were injured in a head-on collision after a car is believed to have swerved across the road in front of them. The sun fell between them in strips of light across the road, strobing her as she drove through them. The right aisle was made into a classroom to accommodate the overflow from the schoolhouse across the road. I was hitch-hiking home from a disco when I spotted a local man across the road. The two old men on the balcony across the road were still chuckling, for all the world like the two old Muppet men at the opera. Was the evidence that the applicant ran across the road diagonally at the bridge parapet and went over? Now, every time he hears the van, he howls like a baby until he is let out, runs across the road and queues up. Show More Sentences I found the new rectory across the road, less than half the size, not a tenth of the grandeur and not even displaying a bit of pargeting. He ran across the road, hurdled the dividing railing, and raced to Vishy and shook his hand. His wife Caroline has worked as a clerical assistant just across the road at the town hall for the same time. A raccoon-like coati scurried across the road and into the adjacent woodland, just as one did thirty years before. Lunch was quite commonly a patty and corn bread or coco bread from the shop across the road. Workers cut an immortelle tree which toppled across the road yesterday, after a freak storm ravaged the area. They picked their way carefully across the road and stepped inside the warm, dry cathedral, pulling the doors closed behind them. The news of the overspend comes as work continues at the shore end of the pier to build a new entrance bridge across the road. This policy was changed earlier this year, when a fire across the road from the school raised significant safety concerns. And the bloke across the road had an inordinate amount of visitors who used to leave clutching a brown paper bag. I had a feeling as the first light filtered through the elms across the road that it might be a pleasant morning. But when Dev arrives at his shop it explodes in a fireball, which sends him flying across the road, leaving him battered and bruised. It takes her a little while to recognize him as the one who ran the small dozer at the construction site across the road. I live just across the road and can see from my window a continual stream of people walking towards the toilets only to find them closed. The towrope snapped, and the towed car veered across the road before crashing into the side of the bus. He then lost control and crashed into a huge tree that had fallen across the road. A squirrel dashed across the road, plumy tail bouncing behind it, and went up a tree. At midmorning we saw a flock of spotted goats being herded across the road, and saw down the meadow the man who drove them. And the year after that, in the pastureland across the road, chain stores pop up like mushrooms among the cow pies. I saw a fox cub running across the road and diving into the hedge as I drove past. Show More Sentences The bar across the road frequented by Stuart and his chums does a lovely spicy sausage sandwich to go. Kirsty Wark popped in from her house across the road while her weans were out at the Brownies and the Cubs. It's handy because it is just across the road from my house in Primrose Hill and they do a great fry-up with nice Polish sausages. I say funnily enough because right across the road from the railway station is The Daily Planet which the time was Australia's largest brothel. The garbage man, who ran across the road without looking, was held not to have been negligent at all. How can you put a shop like this in an area with so many schools in close proximity, and a park across the road? And if a little shopping's what you're after, the Exchange across the road offers off-the-peg designer desirables at affordable prices. The main path in the graveyard across the road from the church will be replaced this week. The church is situated in the old graveyard and across the road from the present cemetery. There is an electrical shop just across the road where I can get the motor, bulbs and wires and it wouldn't cost much. Once in a cab, I saw in front of the Plaza at the pedestrian crossing, a blind man feeling his way across the road, gropingly with his stick. He soon discovers a newly opened video store operating directly across the road and decides to investigate. It spun across the road into the path of oncoming vehicles and disintegrated on impact. Blackburn magistrates heard the officer had tried to take evasive action, which resulted in the car swerving across the road. Near the start of my test I paused expertly to allow an unaccompanied dog to walk across the road in front of me at a zebra crossing. I ran across the road, wadded up my jacket and squatted next to him in the road, with the buses and cars honking and streaming past. When it was lunchtime on his first day he wandered across the road to the recreation ground which had a small grandstand. He then started to drag her across the road by her arm and her hair, while shouting abusively at her. What had actually happened was that she had encountered an unseen, unmarked washout across the road more than three feet wide. We weaved back and forth across the road to avoid the largest of the potholes, dodging trucks and motorbikes and cows along the way. Show More Sentences There is also a trench right across the road on a blind corner that you cannot avoid. Out of the corner of my eye I can see CCTV's main camera lock on to my position from across the road. The men were walking across the road and started shouting racial abuse at him. The 33-year-old nearly knocked over an elderly man who was wheeling his bike across the road as he drove away from the pursuing patrol car. Paradise Australian-style is miles of pristine sand, whipbirds at dawn and a flotation tank just across the road. A stream of animals is flowing across the road, raising dust from hundreds and thousands of cloven hooves. The Renault stopped at a red light and a gang of hooded youths began to saunter across the road. The car was reduced to a mangled wreck, and debris and broken glass were scattered across the road. All of a sudden, the badger twitched, jumped up and strolled across the road to safety. As it's now 10pm, we go across the road to a pizzeria where a hot 'za hits the spot. The court heard the driver of the Volvo pulled out after a van stopped to let him across the road. He said the presence of the gallery across the road from the new parliament could spur it to new heights of art appreciation. Janet would walk across the road every morning and glean what knowledge she could from the two brothers while they were milking. The one genuinely disquieting moment is when a bear lollops across the road behind the cast. As I drove off, a rabbit ran across the road, stopped midway, and turned back. Several mailboxes to serve adjacent properties were placed under a roofed structure on the sidewalk across the road from the house. Cars were parked across the road, and traffic was already beginning to back up. The car then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree. After I met up with her and walked her across the road, she scootered ahead through the park again. Cars both ways screech to a halt as a solitary duck ambles slowly across the road. Show More Sentences Rounding the curve in the road Crow makes a turn and heads straight towards the finish line ribbon strung across the road. A hedgehog scuttles out of the shrubs, it clicks across the road and I staccato-step behind it. I just drove and watched the water run in sheets across the road where the sun was melting snow out in the open. Should self-catering become too arduous, however, she is still across the road from her mum and dad and down the street from her grandmother. Camber is the vertical curve provided across the road width with a crest at the centre so that the water flows to the edges and is drained off. A company is building a huge cell phone tower across the road from my house and property at this very moment. A huge tree had fallen across the road in the vicinity of Nardia's house, and the road was impassable. The crowd outside the Town Hall was so large that people stood on the traffic island and across the road outside the shops. It may have been due to her diabetes or a momentary lapse of concentration that she drifted across the road. The accident left a scene of devastation as the single-decker bus, lorry and two cars were strewn across the road amid debris and broken glass. The scene of bodies covered in bloodstained blankets, with debris and chunks of bodies scattered across the road, revolted bystanders. A few days earlier a blue heeler from a house across the road was also targeted and barely survived the incident. In 1756 he transferred across the road to Pembroke College, having found his Peterhouse neighbours boisterous and noisy. A small black cat bolted across the road in the direction Star was traveling. For any kids who have not burnt enough energy during the day, there's a perfect slope across the road to go sledging in safety. The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road. His wallet's in the front, and she takes it over to the kitchen window, so that she can leaf through it by the light from the street lamp across the road. Peake also made reference to the existence of the National Lotteries Control Board on Duke Street, which lay in close proximity to the Methodist Church just across the road. The birds were docile on the drive, so the TV people chased them across the road to get some shots of them crossing, being careful to stay out of shot themselves. He sings the praises of George, an elderly goose which has apparently taken a family of young ducklings under his wing and regularly helps shepherd them across the road. Show More Sentences They stopped for about 10 minutes at the grade road crossing just up the track, blew a louder horn than before, and then moved very slowly and carefully across the road. The straight or slanting lines across the road marked with or without parallel white lines indicate a designated pedestrian crossing or zebra crossing. Yesterday I looked out of the window and saw four people wearing white plastic raincoats, gumboots, shower caps and surgical masks go into a house across the road. There is a lollipop man who helps them across the road and barriers have been put up recently outside the school so that kids can't run back out on to the road. As I made my way back to my car, a dog fox trotted across the road in front of me, stopped, looked me up and down and then carried on, completely unconcerned. Warm and sunny, and I can still feel the radiating heat of the sun working on the muscles of my back as I pedalled my bicycle through the park, across the road from my house. Mr McKay said the Holden was weaving across the road behind him and then tailgated him bumper to bumper as the two cars made their way out to the Manaia Road intersection. Les flic were starting to put barricades up across the road. Rose awoke to the usual sounds of cars manoeuvring down the road, children playing in the park across the road and the chatting of women on the pavement below. The traditional gents barber was the victim of a practical joke by his friends working at the sign shop, across the road, where he had ordered the board. After selecting a tree, many of their weekend customers head across the road to the basement of the Salem Grove Methodist Church for hot drinks, baked goods, and craft items. A substation in the south-east corner will remain, but the mortuary, the busiest in the city, will be demolished and moved across the road to the hospital building. Fortunately, there were no other vehicles or pedestrians in the immediate vicinity at the time as the trailer glided across the road and became embedded in a stone wall. The first bar was just a chain across the road, the second a wooden structure with a prison on top, and the third a magnificent arch built from Portland stone. From where I'm sitting right now I can see a brushy patch about 125 yards off across the road, the last remaining outpost of a prominent Big City family's ranch. Boyd glumly told him to go over to makeup, which was housed in a little cabin across the road. The Americans placed their own snipers in buildings across the road, in the hope that a muzzle flash or a flicker of light or shadow would betray the enemy's position. Ten minutes after break of day John will listen for the beat of wings and sure as light they will wheel in and come to rest to be fed, in the field across the road. I drove around the block, swung across the road in what I thought was impeccable style, and was just moving into position by the pavement, when a police car drew up beside me. He stomped out the restaurant and crossed the street, heading, I'm guessing, for the Pizza Express across the road, who I'm sure would not be so indelicate. Show More Sentences Suddenly it swerved across the road, and I jammed on the brakes. A great enthusiasm filled the air as the armies spread out, loosening ranks, cavalry and footmen finding their way across the road and into the fields and woods. My father's mother lived downstairs, my mother's mother lived across the road and all my uncles and aunts lived in the building across the way or the building behind. His double life came to an abrupt end on Wednesday when arresting officers armed with a Greek extradition warrant strolled across the road to the hotel. Just before we are crushed, he swings into a tiny hotel set down point, before swinging back across the road, over the traffic island and back into the correct lane. Following the tour, he will be taken around the stables across the road in Northgate Gardens, to meet the company's four shire horses, Barron, Buscot, Royal and Tom. There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses. Large crowds gather and people just wander across the road willy-nilly. We are looking to put in a camera obscura or a viewing tower in the church steeple as a tourist attraction to complement the Botanic Gardens across the road. The animal handler gave it a sharp kick sending it rocketing across the road, but we were told to ignore this test as his interference had invalidated the research data. The tramway terminated on the north side of St Johns Road and the railway was extended across the road to meet it. Theo fell off his bike and lurched across the road, then collapsed. Highways bosses plan to paint a fake speed bump across the road, instead of building the real thing. You may see black-tailed prairie dogs standing on alert at the edges of their burrows or horned larks dashing across the road. When I saw the other driver weaving erratically across the road, I decided to keep my distance. The Russian presence, represented by an armored personnel carrier parked sideways across the road, created a strange situation. These speed bumps are lumpy and haphazard, some of them only reach halfway across the road. Gravity Leisure Club is located across the road at their sister hotel,The Windlestrae. She did not own a television, but went across the road to watch the Rugby. I began drifting and presently encountered a man sitting on a khatiya, gazing passively into the scorched fields across the road. Show More Sentences In 1985, Radio 1 moved across the road from Broadcasting House to Egton House. The moment I flashed my brights this animal started to run across the road. The van driver, a travelling salesman who does not drive fast, has told us she veered across the road towards him. It is understood the large HGV skidded on ice before turning broadways across the road, close to Bryneglwys. Retired haulage contractor Ernest Copple, 83, and his wife Jean, 79, died when their Toyota Camry veered across the road without warning and hit an oncoming car last year. The Homebase store closed in July 2010 and Argos moved across the road. Police said it happened at 9pm outside the Cross Keys pub on the A4133 when a white Transit-type panel van swerved across the road in front of the cyclist. My companion and I headed for the K2 after enjoying a couple of well-earned after-work pints across the road at Moseley's Fieldmouse and Firkin pub. A short distance after the roundabout by the Cottage Loaf, the front nearside wheel clipped a nearside kerb, causing the vehicle to move across the road. Examples from Classical Literature Once or twice he thought he recognized a face he had seen across the road by the Dunker church. He got back in his car and peeled across the road to the shantytown and the guesthouse. Tanaka had gone to take a bath after his warm run and to drink tea at the little tea-house across the road. We removed our first kitchens across the road, up alongside the headquarter tent of Major Wood, in charge of the camp. Then he called to Sir Andrew and led the way across the road and into the spinney. They'll string a riata across the road and hold up the car,209 most likely. Draw the belt tighter, my son, and hew me out this tree that is fallen across the road, for our campground is not here. Phineas swore with such vehemence that the oath might have been heard across the road. They lay across the road, or to either hand in the melancholy fields of sedge. In the long grass of the meadow across the road the insects chirped and clacked eternally. They got in the car and drove across the road to the shantytown. He led the way across the road and down the by-street to his house. There had been a great deal of rain, and now the wind was very high and blew the dry leaves across the road in a shower. The dairyman has perhaps put me a bit against the camp across the road. We have moved our camp across the road to higher and dryer ground. The sun shining slantwise through the trees threw delicate traceries across the road, with bars of golden light between. Garlands and triumphal arches were hung across the road to welcome the young bride. These corduroy roads were repeated throughout the district wherever the natural waterways cut across the road allowances. Here, again, there was an obstructive bar placed across the road. Away across the road the woods beyond Ham and petersham were still afire. Show More Sentences On Saturday night, DiCaprio, Suplee, Haas and a few others were spotted at new Cross eatery Barrio Chino before heading across the road for some hair of the dog at the club. Kim tore back down the ditch till he reached a point opposite his second resting-place, slipped across the road like a weasel, and re-coiled himself in the blanket. A thin, high Kathiawar mare, with eyes and nostrils aflame, rocketed out of the jam, snorting and wincing as her rider bent her across the road in chase of a shouting man. It is hoped to upgrade the triangular park across the road, at the end of the South Mall, and develop a small urban park on the river side of Lapps Quay, facing the bank. Find more words! 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