Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |
| 2 | It 's a big guitar , 16″ wide across the body and just over 4¾″ deep at the bottom bout , and with handsome-looking wood and satin-finished lacquer throughout it makes an immediate impression . |
| 3 | Her shoes trip-tropped across the room . |
| 4 | operating areas active across the globe |
| 5 | The low-flying plane stretched its sound full-length across the hard ice . |
| 6 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 7 | He gathered up the music manuscript into a tidy pile and put his pencil slant-wise across the top . |
| 8 | The sea was emerald green , crested snow-white , and the water was myriad-coloured ; reflecting golden sandy shallows , with shades from green hills and blue skies shimmering across the surface . |
| 9 | When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide . |
| 10 | Our system of government is far too centralised , and fails to make effective use of the talents and skills available across the country . |
| 11 | frigida are species prevalent across the central and northern zones of the Southern Ocean ; smaller E . |
| 12 | Then , in an industry that considers two-colour calling cards flashy , it was hard not to notice the earnest young men and women with the L Ron Hubbard given mission to evangelise about Dianetics , or stunt rider Eddie Kidd , who is carrying self-confidence to the point of leap-frogging his motor cycle clear across the Great Wall of China . |
| 13 | Barbara padded across the carpet to the en-suite bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet above the basin . |
| 14 | So the key requirement here is accurate and timely information available across the enterprise to the desktop of the users or the management which can potentially reflect the whole business requirements . |
| 15 | She climbed from the water and wrapped a towel about her wet body , padding barefoot across the carpet , a soft light of welcome playing in her eyes as she opened the door . |
| 16 | When they wrestled together he was the stronger ; he sent his arrows further and more accurately ; but when they ran races barefooted across the rabbit-bitten turf it was she with her long skinny legs and flying hair who left him far behind . |
| 17 | Someone had limewashed a slogan huge across the rash of posters : ‘ Vive l'empereur ’ ! |
| 18 | From Allexton to Medbourne is only five miles straight across the hills , yet we have passed through a period of some three hundred and fifty years in the history of the landscape . |
| 19 | He slammed his drink onto the bar top , slopping the rum sour across the grubby pine surface . |