1.   The boat crossed the bay and let them off at the dock, directly below the hotel.

2.   As the boat crossed the bar into the open sea with a stomach-clenching lurch, Bryn gave his passenger an encouraging smile.

3.   Boats have been crossing between the islands and the mainland regularly.

4.   Boats have been crossing illegally but regularly from Quemoy and Matsu and the mainland, a situation tolerated by both Beijing and Taipei.

5.   But when the boats crossed tacks again a short way down the track, Assa Abloy was ahead of the German boat.

6.   By the time the boat crossed the equator into the Southern Hemisphere, it had opened up a four-day lead over Mandarin.

7.   Earlier this month, a North Korean patrol boat crossed into South Korean waters and fired three shots at South Korean Navy ships, without damaging them.

8.   Later this month, the boat will cross the Atlantic and then chart a course from the Azores to the Mediterranean.

9.   Should the boats crossing water in some paintings be seen as metaphors for the flight to freedom, analogous to slave hymns about escaping over the River Jordan?

10.   Technically, ice-out is when enough of the ice has vanished so that a lake or pond can be crossed by boat, end to end.