Example sentences of "drifting across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clock chimed in the hall ; as it stopped , Jean heard the faint sound of the bells drifting across the Old Town . |
| 2 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 3 | With the sun ebbing in the sky and the smoke of Thunder Mountain drifting across the horizon , the Dwarf army camped at the entrance to Mad Dog Pass . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |
| 5 | It was a mild night with clouds drifting across the sky and occasionally obscuring the new moon . |
| 6 | The rain was still drifting across the distant mountain range when they left the hotel , blurring their outlines , obscuring the lough . |
| 7 | It looked like a bird with slime-encrusted feathers , three or four foot tall , standing in a pool of blood drifting across the floor . |