Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] across the " 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 | Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky . |
| 4 | He had thinning dyed hair plastered across the top of his head , and his clothes were loud , his hands fleshy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She shone , both physically — Madge 's dress sent prisms of sapphire light flashing across the stage — and artistically . |
| 7 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 8 | 2 If a car drives across the sand , are the tracks left by the front wheels parallel ? |
| 9 | The place was scrubbed clean though flies feasted on the huge globules of red blood spattered across the white-washed walls . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Farrell watched as the smaller car parked across the street from the waxworks . |
| 12 | He started coughing , and blood spatted across the note-dotted creaminess of his score . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But any law which is capable of setting limits across the whole range of publications must acknowledge the risks inherent in the very concept of limits . |
| 15 | It was deafeningly loud ; he felt hot air burn his face ; the car veered across the road . |
| 16 | The snow drove across the land for days . |
| 17 | He reached the doorway to his cellars just as one of the trolls , with a lazy flick of one ham-sized hand , sent his axe whirling across the room . |
| 18 | Every time the carriage passes across the needlebed , it reads the position of the N1 cam and the point cams . |
| 19 | A knitted sweater of cream wool hung across the back of the passenger seat and there was a striped silk scarf , cream , red and black , on the dashboard shelf . |
| 20 | In addition it was expected to increase the supply of emergency food aid passing across the Ethiopian border into Sudan , to regions facing a severe threat of mass starvation , and to refugees camps around the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , where refugee numbers were swollen by the influx from drought-ridden and war-torn rural areas . |
| 21 | With a noisy roar the car shot across the road and crawled along next to her , travelling against the oncoming flow of traffic . |
| 22 | The adoption of Tempo 30 speed limits across the entire area was the third element of environmental traffic management in the Buxtehude experimental area . |
| 23 | A gust of wind roared across the plain and the insect , blown by it , took wing . |
| 24 | The headline emblazoned across the cover of Event — PRIVATE EYE GOES SOFT . |
| 25 | Conditions are then demanding ; the wind blows across the estuary , so the immediate local area has an offshore wind and flat water , great for carve gybe and waterstart practice . |
| 26 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 27 | The cooling fan acts across the valves , thus aiding consistency of performance and also prolonging valve life . |
| 28 | Searing streaks of laser light sizzled across the illuminated path . |
| 29 | Oh , God , I remember the scene well : the black street with its overhanging eaves and gables , the broad splash of light pouring across the cobbles from Ferrebourg 's open window . |
| 30 | It looked like a bird with slime-encrusted feathers , three or four foot tall , standing in a pool of blood drifting across the floor . |