Example sentences of "[verb] across the [noun sg] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of the dazzling white birds were spaced across the summit in close proximity . |
| 2 | The public softening of Turkey 's attitude towards the Kurds may , in the end , be less a change in policy than recognition of the difficulties in controlling what happens across the border in northern Iraq . |
| 3 | One user , in his thirties with a vast experience of illegal drug use , came across the drug in this way . |
| 4 | After an hour or so , they came across the ring in some garden rubbish . |
| 5 | the side of an ordinary household paint brush was half loaded with paint and quickly moved across the canvas in any direction with a ‘ scrubbing ’ motion |
| 6 | A straight-edge is used to guide a glass cutter , which is drawn across the glass in one firm continuous stroke . |
| 7 | Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides . |
| 8 | The student should stand with his feet apart and gradually let each foot slide across the floor in opposite directions . |
| 9 | When I opened the front door there were all my Christmas parcels strewn across the hallway in various stages of unwrappedness . |
| 10 | When Gloria came , pattering across the ward in all her best , Dot could n't bear to see her pretty face and turned away on the pillow with shut eyes . |
| 11 | A plumber came and installed a row of six washbasins in the cloakroom with running water , hot and cold at each , though they still had to run across the playground in all weathers to reach the outside lavatories . |
| 12 | MODEL Paula Hamilton puts a long leg forward as she strides across the catwalk in stunning fashion . |
| 13 | I remember that well because someone was practising the organ and light drifted across the churchyard in coloured bands through stained-glass windows . |
| 14 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |
| 15 | But as I think I have said already , I can recall vividly the way the last of the daylight was coming through each open doorway and falling across the corridor in orange shafts . |
| 16 | However , Mr Jordan noted that staffing levels would not benefit in the short term as cutbacks continued across the board in all sectors . |
| 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 | Skimming across the water in small sailing craft can quickly become addictive . |