Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 2 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 3 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 4 | There was an old wooden house perched on top of a small hill , and the featureless cabins were spread out across the property below . |
| 5 | In the distance a mess of lights were spread out across the face of the night like a shovelful of glowing cinders , flickering and scintillating in the currents of air rising from the villages in the plain between . |
| 6 | The sea was drawing off across the foreshore — leaving acre after acre of rocks — with a long series of hollow roars , diminishing , diminuendo on diminuendo . |
| 7 | Conference , these statistics have been proved in one small area of the United Kingdom , the results if the same exercise was carried out across the length and breadth of the country would be frightening . |
| 8 | Slowly at first , then ever more rapidly , she was drawn out across the lake . |
| 9 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 10 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 11 | The Ingledew mansion was going up across the creek on the other side , above the grove where the saman stood and facing west ; Tom had sited his Great House further up the slope , by a magnificent specimen of an Indian fig tree with aerial roots falling like stilts and snaking over the ground below , and had designed a belvedere in the roof to give views to the four quarters . |
| 12 | Doyle was flung back across the table , a milk bottle exploding in the bag he held across his chest . |
| 13 | She was n't going to be happy until that two-fifty was zapped back across the void to Mirabeau Precinct . |
| 14 | Kadan was stretched out across a couch which was placed under one of the windows which ran the length of the room . |
| 15 | His finger traced a narrow band of blue shading on the map which was laid out across the table . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's it worth ? ’ said Nicola , ignoring the guy who was creeping back across the room with her joint in his mouth . |
| 17 | The wind had fallen away and the evening was spread out across the river , still , languid , suffused with golden light . |
| 18 | When the wind was wrong , the putrid stench was wafted up across the fields . |
| 19 | Then he was thrown back across the table , sprawling beneath the lights like an unwilling patient . |
| 20 | Monday evening during dinner Bob hit and a huge tree was blown down across the power lines so we had no power and dinner was by candlelight . |