Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] across the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 2 | I remember that well because someone was practising the organ and light drifted across the churchyard in coloured bands through stained-glass windows . |
| 3 | A cat nips across the pavement in front of us and slides through a gap in the fence . |
| 4 | They stand or sit on thin irregular lines painted across the black in a white which has somewhat faded . |
| 5 | However , this point is not a static marker , but moves along the horizon as the sun travels across the sky in an arc . |
| 6 | At that moment a small butterfly flew across the path in front of us . |
| 7 | And the child runs across the road in front of the lorry . |
| 8 | Shrouds of silver rain shuffle across the sea in front of us . |
| 9 | How can a spaceship travel across the Galaxy in no time at all ? |
| 10 | The student should stand with his feet apart and gradually let each foot slide across the floor in opposite directions . |
| 11 | With two drama/percussionists and a saxophonist — composer Steve Blake — the Victims of Death band creates a relentless musical background that sends the dancers rushing across the stage in the opening section of Precious , an endless succession of attract/repel contacts , with walks , runs and jumps , not dance steps per se , but crafted seamlessly into a totally interactive structure . |
| 12 | Our friend worked across the landing in the spare bedroom packing them ready for distribution . |
| 13 | Water spread across the floor in a greasy stream , mingling with the pile of filthy rushes . |
| 14 | for example , in her solo in Ashton 's Cinderella the Winter Fairy moves across the stage in a series of pas de bourrée en tournantà terre , the feet weaving their in-and-out pattern as the arms flick to and fro sparkling with frost . |
| 15 | When I opened the front door there were all my Christmas parcels strewn across the hallway in various stages of unwrappedness . |
| 16 | A pair of partridges whirred across the road in front of her , and Winnie remembered that Ella had told her that they mated for life . |
| 17 | All through the night it continued , and all through the night thunder boomed and lightning ripped across the sky in jagged white flashes . |
| 18 | Second , it is not true that girls underachieve across the board in education . |
| 19 | I found the shop I wanted ; an open Bible and a quote from it in Spanish written across the glass in white-wash . |
| 20 | The Star Ferry keeps on going , its little green ships bucking across the harbour in the growing swell until the last stragglers from Kowloon have made it to Hong Kong , and those bound north from the island have reached their goal . |
| 21 | I say a tall man coming across the street in shirt-sleeves . |
| 22 | A flock of dunlin flew across the marsh in a silver swirl , catching the sun , dazzling the eye . |
| 23 | Twice in Morocco he was arrested and interrogated as a spy by the French Foreign Legion who refused to believe that anyone would spend their holidays cycling across the desert in temperatures of 48 ’ C. |
| 24 | However , Mr Jordan noted that staffing levels would not benefit in the short term as cutbacks continued across the board in all sectors . |
| 25 | Once a grass-snake slid across the path in front of her and made her halt sharply with a startled cry , but she went resolutely on again , and at last the trees began to thin out and the patch of sky in front of her widen . |
| 26 | The plane jerks across the screen in its bombing run , the camera panning wildly to the building as a cloud of grey and white smoke blossoms from its interior . |
| 27 | One of these , which you can go round , is known now as the Maison Louis XIV , because that remarkable king lodged there in 1660 when he came to Saint-Jean to be married to Maria Theresa , the Infant a of Spain ( the bride stayed across the road in a charming pink brick and stone house known ever since as the Maison de l'lnfante ) . |
| 28 | This ‘ three hits ’ principle applies across the board in communication , but it takes effort . |
| 29 | For the eleventh and twelfth centuries new estates developed centred on new caputs the castles and monasteries of Norman England , with their lands spread across the landscape in manors and vills . |
| 30 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |