Example sentences of "[adv prt] across the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far below , down across the wide sun-drenched valley , she could see the huge red dome of the church at Mosta , and in the distance the spires of Valletta and the blue sea beyond . |
| 2 | It comes trailing in across the seething crowd of heads without a single bite . |
| 3 | The light was already fading , dark clouds dropping towards the sea and rain drifted in across the wet sands . |
| 4 | With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went . |
| 5 | They wend off across the dully shining floor of the ballroom , heading approximately for the stairs . |
| 6 | She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead . |
| 7 | Scunthorpe survived largely because Futcher thought he was offside when he was n't and Deary was when he should n't have been — his 81st-minute goal being disallowed to the despair of the home fans and the delight of those setting off across the black hills . |
| 8 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 9 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 10 | Masklin grabbed the Thing and took off across the polished surface . |
| 11 | Quigley just stood there , his immense arms loose at his side , as the mass of the congregation , murmuring among themselves like extras in a bad production of a Shakespeare play , swept after Pike as he turned and , bucket in hand , ran off across the Common towards the spot where Mr Marr had been sitting the night the aliens came . |
| 12 | She had no idea why she suddenly looked back , as they set off across the level turf that stretched above that mysterious underworld of brick-built labyrinths . |
| 13 | He dropped a light kiss on her cheek and strode off across the empty square . |
| 14 | Dismissing the irritating Leo from her mind , she ran lightly upstairs to collect a thick sweater and to pull on heavy shoes before setting off across the boggy field behind the cottage towards the bend in the river . |
| 15 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 16 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |
| 17 | Away up across the overhead bridge here you cross the you know the overhead bridge |
| 18 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 19 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 20 | An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal . |
| 21 | He saw the girl out and put the bar up across the double doors . |
| 22 | With patterned fabric , the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain . |
| 23 | Then he turned away and splashed numbly back across the flooded camp to his own hut . |
| 24 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |
| 25 | Grimma walked back across the greasy floor of the cab . |
| 26 | She felt , rather than heard , how he turned smartly and loped back across the panelled hall towards the door , no doubt to drive the car round into the garage . |
| 27 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 28 | Got it back across the other fella really could n't quite get enough power on the shot . |
| 29 | Like a game-cock in arrogance , he lifted her back across the dividing space and pulling away the collar of her , inevitably musquash , fur coat , he dropped his mouth low on the back of her neck , drawing kisses to and fro and nibbling gently across it . |
| 30 | People spill back across the empty space of moonlight , and the dancers ' faces merge with the crowd . |