Example sentences of "[vb past] out across the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost dark when the sheep squeezed through the narrow path between two houses and spilled out across the open village square . |
| 2 | Another 1,800 emigres came out across the Austro-Hungarian border in the 48 hours ending yesterday morning . |
| 3 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 4 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 5 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 6 | We flew out across the northern reefs . |
| 7 | I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics . |
| 8 | Alone again , he turned and stared out across the shadowed lands of his estate towards the distant mountains . |
| 9 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 10 | The three men stared out across the French countryside as the light turned first murky , then grey and finally black . |
| 11 | Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water . |
| 12 | We had dinner on top of a tall building in Tapiola and looked out across the ice-locked offshore islands . |
| 13 | She put on her own sunglasses and looked out across the worn pitch . |
| 14 | They sat down on some chairs by the window , and looked out across the Rivoli Gardens . |
| 15 | He looked out across the darkening moor , its becks and mires , its hills d bony ridges of granite . |
| 16 | They both turned and looked out across the fresh greenery sparkling in the April sunlight towards the solitary plume of blue smoke . |
| 17 | Edward stopped and looked out across the open sea . |
| 18 | It was natural that these coastal settlements would later become important trading centres in their own right , especially when Cretan influence stretched out across the whole Aegean world and beyond . |
| 19 | Stephen came upon the flowers by chance after he had left the path and struck out across the rough marshy ground . |
| 20 | Christina struck out across the aquamarine water and swam quickly out to sea . |
| 21 | 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 . |