Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 2 | It is flanked by a dramatic ridge of mountains to the south , white-clad needle points that are silhouetted against the blue sky . |
| 3 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 4 | But Van Cheele had no time to talk about the beautiful sky . |
| 5 | The woman stood there with the bags at her feet and said out loud , to no one , not to O , not to the child , not to the singer , just stood there and threw her head back and stood there , framed against the blue sky and green hills of France , with the train leaving now , she screamed out loud , over and over , oh fuck , fuck , fuck , fuck , fuck . |
| 6 | Close beside it is a much fainter star , Alcor , which is an easy object when seen against a dark sky , and can be made out with no trouble at all . |
| 7 | Then the hills merged into the dark sky behind them , and all was grey , but it was not the hoped-for grey which is the beginning of dawn . |
| 8 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 9 | Dana had sailed under a blue sky for too long to have any defence against storms , and this man was the worse kind of cyclone . |
| 10 | Elinor stared bleakly out of the window , beyond the sloping lawn to where the sludge-coloured sea met with the grey sky . |
| 11 | Almost immediately there is a beautiful retrospect of Loch Broom and Strath More ; seen under a blue sky , there are few fairer pictures than this . |
| 12 | She saw birds whirling in the stark sky . |
| 13 | Or maybe something like the morning star that still hung in the dawning sky . |
| 14 | A three-quarter moon , pale as ivory , hung in the clear sky , sharpening the shadows under their hurrying feet . |
| 15 | She could see a rainbow forming in the cloud-streaked sky . |
| 16 | The redness flowered into a sort of technicoloured aurora borealis , beams of magenta and pink fanning across the brightening sky until everything was transfigured by a brilliant crescent above an eastern dune . |
| 17 | In front of him , and smeared across the southern sky , was the smoke of thousands of camp-fires . |
| 18 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 19 | browsing for the right sky , |
| 20 | As his nose was so white and shiny , like a light bulb , it shone through the dark sky , showing Santa the way to everybody 's houses . |
| 21 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 22 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 23 | In this childbirth sequence the prose of an essentially devious and turbid writer clears like a tangled sky . |
| 24 | Miles of sandy beaches , dynamic mountains , hectic night life , tranquil coves , a cosmopolitan atmosphere and all around a deep blue Mediterranean sea , above which the blazing sun hangs in a cloudless sky . |
| 25 | An orange swathe covers the centre of the island ; wings of red cloud hang in the still-blue sky . |
| 26 | When we had finished laughing we sat round the embers drinking tea until the first green light of dawn showed in the eastern sky . |
| 27 | The cold bleak light was growing in the cloudless sky . |
| 28 | No one moving , not a man nor a woman , not a car or a motor bike , not even a dog barking under the sickle moon which shone in an opalescent sky surrounded by a diadem of stars . |
| 29 | The sun shone from a cloudless sky , birds sang and everything in the extensive , well-tended garden looked lush and green and fresh . |
| 30 | Thick white clouds raced across the blue sky , casting a perpetual kaleidoscope of light and shade over the earth . |