Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] across [art] " in BNC.

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1 At the back occasional noises of activity from the park broke across the air ; she sat in the front room cool enough now to sew .
2 A transverse ridge counters this by having the length of the ridge run across the sleeping area .
3 Two storeys below her room , the kitchen lay across the landing from the dining-room .
4 We 're hitting the trail to put across the nuclear message
5 The route continues across the A493 , going on to follow the banks of the Afon Wnion into Dolgellau .
6 He was so frightened he would n't let the driver go across a green light in case he hit Red and the twins coming the other way . ’
7 Sure enough , I hear the lovely yodelling ‘ Cal-calloo ’ of the drake echoing across the water — surely one of the most evocative of the calls of our winter birds .
8 The play skims across the surface of high and low society in the ’ Capitals ’ of Europe at a breathtaking pace .
9 But he could not resist holding the bird up to his desk lamp , so that the light ran across the surface and seemed to flow over the edges in crimson flame .
10 Every time the carriage passes across the needlebed , it reads the position of the N1 cam and the point cams .
11 Drifts appeared , gathered up against sheer slopes and the larger boulders , and the snow blew across the hillside like smoke , coating themselves and their mounts with white and frosting their eyebrows .
12 The snow drove across the land for days .
13 Elsewhere you will hear a Black Eyes Etude ( Op. 10 No. 5 ) wickedly tinted and inflected despite the most vertiginous brilliance and rapidly of reflex , and an Aeolian Harp ( Op. 25 No. 1 ) where the melody glides across a harmonic haze as if on air cushions .
14 She sagged in his arms , catching dizzied sight of the assailant running across the pavement , with another man in pursuit .
15 White brocade wallpaper , white muslin at the windows , white porcelain statues on the mantelpiece and the occasional tables , white lace of the shawl folded across the arm of the sofa .
16 The headline emblazoned across the cover of Event — PRIVATE EYE GOES SOFT .
17 She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit .
18 When we had the gales a couple of years ago , I was in the kitchen making a cup of tea and I could hear all this glass smashing , and I went ooh what 's going on , and the wind whistled across the field , it 's all open field
19 The forest seemed to become alive , and the wind swept across the surface of the trees , as if a giant hand had reached down to caress it .
20 Conditions are then demanding ; the wind blows across the estuary , so the immediate local area has an offshore wind and flat water , great for carve gybe and waterstart practice .
21 She looked at each of them , her eyes steady and brilliant , the wind scurrying across the forest now , nearly with them .
22 It was deafeningly loud ; he felt hot air burn his face ; the car veered across the road .
23 With a noisy roar the car shot across the road and crawled along next to her , travelling against the oncoming flow of traffic .
24 It had rained again , leaving the streets dark and shining , and the wheels of the car hissed across the damp road .
25 Mr Ramsey swung the wheel over violently to avoid the telegraph pole and the car careered across the road , skidded , hit the grass verge the other side , and overturned .
26 The wheels locked and the car careered across the road , clipping the side of an oncoming Greyhound bus .
27 The lawyer walked across the courtroom and stood in front of the jury .
28 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 .
29 The hare flees across a field in this way , and a number of different birds and fish have also been seen to use this technique .
30 The cumulative grammar score is the sum of these window grammar scores as the window moves across the lattice .
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