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I finally got across the river.
I attempted to swim across the river.
Our parents live right across the street from us.
I won't be able to carry Tom across the bridge.
He came across a wolf.
The train had to stop because there was a tree lying across the railway line.
Tom wanted to swim across the lake but he overshot himself and drowned.
How can we get across the river?
Tom looked across the street and saw Mary.
Tom sailed across the ocean.
He knows about all the dangers he may come across on this road.
Jimmy tried to cajole his parents into letting him drive across the country with his friends.
Can you swim across the river?
I ran across an old friend near the bank.
The visitor sat across from me.
The mere idea of swimming across the river made me tremble.
On her way home, Mary came across John.
I can see some people walking across the street.
A cloud floated across the sky.
Once across the river, you are safe.
A boy is walking across the street.
Rod lives across the street from John.
Lindbergh was the first man to fly across the Atlantic.
When Mary saw him, a look of surprise spread across her face.
The bridge is safe; you can drive across.
The church is just across the street.
When I tried to move the desk, one of its legs made a jarring sound as it scraped across the floor.
The school is across from our house.
The flower shop is just across the street.
On my way home, I came across an old friend.
I saw something very bright fly across the night sky.
Clouds are flying across the sky.
A cloud passed across the moon.
Clouds sail across the sky.
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That's ten times the size of the Santa Maria, the ship that columbus sailed across the atlantic Ocean in 1 492.
For centuries, the old spice route ran from the Indian Ocean over land across the Arabian peninsula, into the Ottoman Empire, and then from Venice into Europe.
They traveled across the United States to find Paradise in Sal Tlay Ka Siti.
Even though their prophet had died, the Mormons stuck together and helped each other, and were really nice to everyone they came across.
The projectile's gonna come through this hole, slam into this target, which is about two feet across - this is just ordinary sand - and we'll see if it survives.
What about communicating with people across the galaxy where there are tens of thousands or a hundred thousand light years in between?
Reasonable ventilation across both lung fields.
Widespread full and partial-thickness burns across the chest.
And if it's the people across the street from that church, just tell them I don't believe and will never believe.
I live across the hall from the guys.
You came across Declan and Scarlett during the evening.
The pattern on the rug has three diamonds running across.
Well, it gets the message across.
All across the country. I'm a historian, telling the true tale of this great land as her iconic birthday fast approaches.
Pray, tell me where did you come across my briefcase?
But, Mama, I want to carry you across so you won't get your feet wet. You?
Mr. Flack, how can I get my mule Useless across?
Yes. We'd better help 'em across. Yeah.
Here, I'll put these in your wagon and help you across.
Boy, they're scattered back all across the desert.
When necessary, I fly across the line, and play the clown, or the Austrian officer.
What's that running across the lawn?
They said he stepped across the hall for breakfast.
They're shoving their hard-earned money across the counter with a 10-to-1 chance against them.
I ran across her a long time ago.
One more occurence like this and you'll live in that shack across the river. I will not! And if you think I give a.
They can't stop machine guns from being run across the state lines.
You fellas go on that roof across the street.
It's my understanding a Miss Natalie Sykes - lived across the hall from you earlier this year.
All across the country.
Our power will shine across the world across the universe!
Our power will shine across the world.
We couldn't get her across the compound!
Then you can look out of the windows, across the fields. to the two trees on the horizon.
McCloskey shoots the right across to Jerry's chin, just missed.
The orderly-room is across the road.
Thanks. - Let's step across the street and see Mr. Dondolos and his four brothers.
THE GIRL'S ACROSS THE BORDER.
SHE'S OUT OF THE COUNTRY ACROSS THE BORDER.
News and current affairs
But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.
Europe's leaders cannot carry out large transfers across countries indefinitely without a coherent European political framework.
BRUSSELS - The tsunami that has swept across financial markets is a global catastrophe.
Unfortunately, conditions across the Union will likely worsen before they begin to improve.
Look at America in 1787: creation of the federal government swept away the balkanized system of pre-revolutionary colonies, ushering in an era of entrepreneurial expansion across the entire American Continent.
Opiates flow freely across borders into Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian countries.
Furthermore, Afghanistan's neighbors must do more to stop insurgents, weapons, money, and chemical precursors from flowing across their borders into the country.
These activities should be explored in a framework of economic development across Central Asia.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
Whereas some German companies persuaded workers to accept wage cuts to help weather the financial crisis, wages across the southern periphery have been marching steadily upwards, even as productivity has remained stagnant.
We do not yet know what combination of black-box computer programs and electronic trading algorithms, interacting across more than 50 market centers, caused this catastrophe.
A democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world.
That talk is sending shudders across Europe, where many people connect it with America's oft-stated desire to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
Across the Atlantic, most Americans (to the extent they pay attention) regard these changes with general approval.
For a normal country, the national income-tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.
But the real problem stems from another form of contagion: bad ideas move easily across borders, and misguided economic notions on both sides of the Atlantic have been reinforcing each other.
While sovereign credit quality has deteriorated virtually across the board, and will most probably continue to do so, the implications for individual countries vary.
The Taliban are now an increasingly spent force, but lack of water reinforced the logic of opium production across its former strongholds in the south.
Regulators must also stipulate that company reports be made available on a regular, timely basis, and that they are easily accessible and comparable across countries and other extractive companies.
Rapid expansion of agricultural activity is requiring more and more water all across the continent.
Wangari is one of thousands of urban workers in Kenya - and one of hundreds of thousands, even millions, across Africa - who are increasing their incomes through absentee agriculture.
Across Africa, political leaders, long dismissive of rural concerns, have awakened to the importance of agriculture and the role that educated people, even those living in major cities, can play in farming.
Her political style is both refreshing and relevant, because she comes across as sincere and forthright at a time when the public is hungry for moral leadership.
We all stand to lose from a reversal of the economic and social progress made across Africa in the past decade.
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