Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] across the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered alone across the muttering stream and satisfied myself that the spongy land was still lined with alders . |
| 2 | The door opened , and her presentiments were realised as someone moved stealthily across the carpeted floor , the narrow beam of a torch flitting over the low couch and the bureau set against the far wall . |
| 3 | I look out across the twinkling expanse of ocean , and decide to go and see Teddy . |
| 4 | Other reservoir possibilities are offered by the great variety of sandstone facies of the Late Carboniferous deltas which prograded southwards across the Dinantian carbonate platform . |
| 5 | The corridor was in the embrace of a deep silence which spread right across the dark garden court below and beyond the open verandah which ran along all four inward-looking walls of the house on the first floor , on to which the bedrooms opened . |
| 6 | There are many problems which cut right across the artificial frontiers separating these subjects , particularly when attempts are made to interpret thought and feeling . |
| 7 | This distinction , which cuts right across the familiar division into arts and sciences , seems to me by far the most important that there is . |
| 8 | Slipping off her muddy shoes , Leonora went on into the big living-room , every nerve on edge as she crept silently across the familiar worn carpet towards the seductive warmth from the stove , but there was still no sign of Penry . |
| 9 | The eastern travels of Herodotus , who moved freely across the two thousand miles separating Babylon from Cyrene , were made possible by Persian indulgence and protection , in much the way that the evangelism of St Paul was facilitated by the Roman Peace . |
| 10 | She walked away across the polished floor , then halted and turned . |
| 11 | Her tall , slender form was tightly swathed in a pink dress and she stepped warily across the uneven boards on white sandals with heels so high and narrow it seemed barely possible that they could support a human being . |
| 12 | It was Robert who padded solemnly across the little bridge , waded into the pond to the culvert 's egress , and wrenched the grating from its mouth , setting free a rush of mud and water from which he lifted out , first , Nicandra 's dog ( exhausted and bleeding but quite ready to bite ) , then Lally , every stitch she wore soaked and clinging close as a swimsuit to her solid child-size body . |
| 13 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 14 | Carrie bit back a sharp reply and instead she leaned forward across the littered table . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead . |
| 17 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 18 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |
| 19 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 20 | We flew out across the northern reefs . |
| 21 | They paced together across the black brick paving . |
| 22 | They cut right across the basic philosophy of rugby football — that is , to go forward and make ground . |
| 23 | They wend off across the dully shining floor of the ballroom , heading approximately for the stairs . |
| 24 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 25 | They walked on across the cleared area in silence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Clasping her to him , he urged her off balance , his mouth claiming hers as they fell backwards across the narrow bed . |
| 28 | They looked so filthy and disreputable that a woman walking her dog stopped to stare at them as they straggled wearily across the wide , almost deserted beach . |
| 29 | They looked southward across the dismal waste . |
| 30 | Tabitha sat back in the boat , amazed and astonished by her own luck , as they nosed out across the filthy water , under the acid glare of a video wall . |