Example sentences of "beyond it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond it the sky was lowering grey , shrouding the roofs of the buildings and filtering cold dull half-light onto the streets and the distant river . |
| 2 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 3 | Ahead is a concrete wall , beyond it the water , fifty metres down ; somewhere , I think I know , there is a sharp right-hand turn . |
| 4 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 5 | The more restricted arena of the Chamber itself was divided into the Presence Chamber , where anyone with access to court might go , and beyond it the Privy Chamber and the most private apartments , to which entree was restricted . |
| 6 | Immediately to the west of the col is the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , then , to the left of that , the granite mass if of Néouvielle , with beyond it the rim of the Cirque de Gavarnie , and the Monte Perdido on the Spanish side ; and so on round to the south-east , in a wonderfully three dimensional arrangement of crests and hollows . |
| 7 | They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea . |
| 8 | He stood at the lit window of his hotel room and saw his own reflection , and beyond it the room , and in that ghost-world the image of Tom Carey walking to and fro , a glassy shadow . |
| 9 | Beyond it the contiguous earth was sun-deprived and barren . |
| 10 | From Schupfheim a spectacular minor road runs south for 17km ( 10½ miles ) following the Forest Emme ( Waldemme ) as this stretch of Little Emme is commonly called , through the hills along the Mariental valley to Fluhli and the little climatic resort of Sorenberg ( 1,159m , 3,802ft ) , near which is a cable railway to the summit of the Brienzer Rothorn which gives an unrivalled prospect of Lake Brienz and beyond it the whole massif of the Bernese Oberland peaks . |
| 11 | Beyond it the mountains of the Ta Pa Shan formed faint shapes in the distance . |
| 12 | Far ahead the outline of a fort signalled Antibes , beyond it the Cap ran out to sea . |
| 13 | She stood looking towards the balcony and beyond it the sea . |
| 14 | A kissing-gate led to the moor and beyond it the path climbed steeply . |
| 15 | Not far away was the great sweep of the Radnor Forest , and beyond it the Elan valley where peregrines nested , the Towy valley with the last kites in Britain , and Tregaron Bog where wild geese came in winter . |
| 16 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 17 | and beyond it the sky , |
| 18 | Beyond it the waters of Sandwich Bay were blue , flecked by the white specks of seagulls plunging to their prey , or little squads of terns scudding close to the waves . |