Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had thinning dyed hair plastered across the top of his head , and his clothes were loud , his hands fleshy . |
| 2 | Doyle shouted across the intervening distance . |
| 3 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 4 | Tidal waves rippled across the Inner Sea , great walls of water that sank ships and brought the trees on distant shores toppling down . |
| 5 | High heels pattered across the cloakroom floor and someone pushed at the toilet door . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | He started coughing , and blood spatted across the note-dotted creaminess of his score . |
| 8 | Labour shortages occurred across the economy , particularly in the construction industry [ see pp. 37085-86 ] . |
| 9 | All the boats were getting ready for the regatta that afternoon , bailing out dinghies , coiling ropes , and smells of food frying wafted across the smell of the estuary . |
| 10 | Edward paddled across the river to the highway , hitched a ride into town and bought back beer . |
| 11 | It was deafeningly loud ; he felt hot air burn his face ; the car veered across the road . |
| 12 | The snow drove across the land for days . |
| 13 | A gust of wind roared across the plain and the insect , blown by it , took wing . |
| 14 | Searing streaks of laser light sizzled across the illuminated path . |
| 15 | The lawyer walked across the courtroom and stood in front of the jury . |
| 16 | Georgina called across the crowded room . |
| 17 | Scott nodded , watching as Hitch scuttled across the road and disappeared out of sight as he began to descend the embankment steps towards the pier . |
| 18 | Silver plumes of snow lay across the peaks . |
| 19 | Whilst Ranulf and Maltote stayed with the horses and pulled long expressions so they could join the mourners , Corbett strode across the leaf-strewn village green and through the wicket gate of the church . |
| 20 | A red weal lay across the lines of his forehead like a strawberry mark . |
| 21 | Lucy looked across the room to where the older man sat at the corner table . |
| 22 | Rex rolled across the sidewalk and came up with his hand inside his leather jacket . |
| 23 | Branches lay across the bacon slicer , ready for lopping . |
| 24 | Branches lay across the mouth of a pottery urn , their budding twigs stiff and still in a difficult death . |
| 25 | The moon was high above them as they walked cautiously through the dark forest and the pale , eerie light lay across the woodland path , cold and unfriendly . |
| 26 | In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed . |
| 27 | Drifts appeared , gathered up against sheer slopes and the larger boulders , and the snow blew across the hillside like smoke , coating themselves and their mounts with white and frosting their eyebrows . |
| 28 | Self-contained men in well-cut dark overcoats strode across the concourse with the air of being on their way from spending the afternoon in small Bayswater hotels with other men 's wives . |
| 29 | I paused at one of the few spots where a bright streak of light fell across the boards and , as she approached , said : ‘ Ah , Miss Kenton . ’ |
| 30 | Katherine Lundy opened her son 's bedroom door less than an hour later , the bar of light fell across the sprawled figure of Patrick , the sheets rumpled and curled around him . |