Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red-headed England 's Glory spilled across the bare boards of the floor . |
| 2 | What caused a crop of broken limbs , however , was his brainwave of making men do backward rolls out of a 15-cwt. truck speeding across the desert at 30 miles per hour . |
| 3 | Below the well , a waterfall tumbled across an artificial rockery . |
| 4 | However , this need not limit the total amount of patterning , a collection of different cable patterns arranged across the yoke of a plain sweater for example , can be as intricate as you feel you can manage . |
| 5 | Now that America and its European partners have said they will concentrate on protecting ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia , the Muslims are left in a kind of Balkan version of KwaZulu , the most fragmented of the black homelands scattered across the map of South Africa . |
| 6 | With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England . |
| 7 | Activity in Oxford city hospitals is at present scattered across a number of main sites ( the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals , the Radcliffe Infirmary , and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ) as well as several smaller specialised sites ( Warneford , Littlemore , Rivermead , etc . ) . |
| 8 | Never had Berret come across a case with so many promising openings that led nowhere . |
| 9 | Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky . |
| 10 | He had thinning dyed hair plastered across the top of his head , and his clothes were loud , his hands fleshy . |
| 11 | She heard Fernando returning across the patio , jangling car keys in his fingers . |
| 12 | The cooing calls of eider ducks carried across the bay ‘ Ooooooo-OO-oo , ooooooo-OO-oo . ’ |
| 13 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 14 | Doyle shouted across the intervening distance . |
| 15 | Sort of Oh we used to risk our necks walking across the ruddy this mill was a bit of a wreck actually and we used to go playing in places where we should n't have really . |
| 16 | The secret is the human voice — at once intimate and personal to you — much more magic in a way than the announcer on TV backed by his hi-tech coloured images flashing across the screen or pictures of the events being described — all of which may actually lessen the feeling of personal involvement . |
| 17 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 18 | She shone , both physically — Madge 's dress sent prisms of sapphire light flashing across the stage — and artistically . |
| 19 | That was for the sons and daughters of richer families like her Pascoe cousins whose father , Uncle Harry , was making his fortune privateering and could afford to pay for Cousin Tristram to go across the water to Fowey every morning and attend Mr Carew 's new grammar school . |
| 20 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 21 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 22 | 2 If a car drives across the sand , are the tracks left by the front wheels parallel ? |
| 23 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 24 | Tidal waves rippled across the Inner Sea , great walls of water that sank ships and brought the trees on distant shores toppling down . |
| 25 | The place was scrubbed clean though flies feasted on the huge globules of red blood spattered across the white-washed walls . |
| 26 | The video writing speed ( the rate at which the rotating video heads track across the tape ) is 3.8 metres per second for countries such as the US and Japan which have 525-line pictures , and 3.2 m/s for Europe 's 625 lines . |
| 27 | While I am waiting on the platform , a railway employee shouts across the track that the 9.49 is cancelled , and that the next train will be at 10.19 . |
| 28 | High heels pattered across the cloakroom floor and someone pushed at the toilet door . |
| 29 | Farrell watched as the smaller car parked across the street from the waxworks . |
| 30 | Images flickered across the disordered screen of her mind — Rune provocatively , dominantly angry at their first meeting ; Rune , eyes shuttered , playing ‘ her ’ song ; Rune , mouth tender , eyes laughing as he had watched the children playing at the funfair in Tivoli ; Rune , seeking her out at her hotel , deliberately drawing her into his life ; Rune , his blond head bent , handling her damaged foot with such tenderness ; Rune … |