Example sentences of "[vb past] across the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle shouted across the intervening distance . |
| 2 | They ranged across the political spectrum from rightwing conservatives to left-wing socialists . |
| 3 | As we wandered across the Széchenyi Bridge towards my hotel , László pointed out that in the last days of the Nazi occupation , Admiral Horthy had protected the Budapest Jews . |
| 4 | Abandoning the kitchen , she wandered across the large living-room to the windows . |
| 5 | They wove across the metallic dunes , submerging themselves like roots , surfacing again , twitching , throbbing sluggishly . |
| 6 | For there was tenderness in him , no doubt about that , Lisa reflected as they reached the foot of the path and headed across the rocky moonlit beach , his arm around her waist as though nothing could be more natural . |
| 7 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 8 | He staggered across the bouncing floor to the doorway and cautiously peered out . |
| 9 | He started coughing , and blood spatted across the note-dotted creaminess of his score . |
| 10 | His mind 's eye saw again , with the sharp clarity of a six-year-old , the battered galloping horses with flaring nostrils , the glittering brass posts , twisted like giant barley sugar sticks , the dizzy red and yellow swingboats and the snakes of black flex that coiled across the bruised grass of Thrush Green waiting to ensnare the feet of the bedazzled . |
| 11 | She heard the crop swish ominously , and again it was the flap which cracked across the fleshy left cheek of her plump posterior . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | Then , pulling herself upright , she moved across the little sitting room and to the stairs that went straight up from the corner of the room . |
| 14 | The dark grey eyes that glanced her way just before they moved across the chaotic intersection seemed to mirror that hatred , and she recoiled slightly . |
| 15 | She clumped across the star-patterned mosaic towards the walk-in cupboard where the ski-gear was kept . |
| 16 | She waved to them , and they strolled across the white marble floor to join her . |
| 17 | The two strolled across the neat lawn before the Professor 's Hall . |
| 18 | She tiptoed across the wide polished boards , past the stuffed bear with his arms full of walking sticks , the brass-faced longcase clock , the dignified portrait of old Mr Jarman with his watching eyes , and quietly opened the door , drawing in great breaths of sharp fresh air , revelling in this stolen freedom . |
| 19 | They trudged across the crunching snow over tiny , hump-backed bridges which spanned the silent black canals and wound their way through a labyrinth of deserted streets — some hardly wider than Lucenzo 's broad shoulders . |
| 20 | Elsie had wept for kind Mrs Doran and for her husband , that strange , silent , sympathetic man , lifting his feet cautiously as he sidled across the polished floor . |
| 21 | The musket-balls slammed across the small stream and bent the rye crop as though a squall of wind had struck the stalks . |
| 22 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 23 | She tells us about one she came across the other day . |
| 24 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 25 | I came across the following handwritten entry : |
| 26 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 27 | Robins came across the intact records of a child guidance clinic in St Louis , of children who had been in trouble between 1924 and 1929 . |
| 28 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 29 | This was fine until the wind direction changed slightly and came across the fixed line . |
| 30 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |