Example sentences of "straight across [art] " in BNC.
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1 | To the left of this peak was Koitobos Col , a low gap in the crater rim , and we aimed straight across the top of the valley towards it . |
2 | The road ran straight across the desert for twenty miles . |
3 | Lachlan himself was handling the thick steering oar with casual strength , hauling steadily to keep the lymphad 's head straight across the wind . |
4 | A modified swing , straight across the line of the windrow leaves the butts to the left but this is harder and slower work . |
5 | This cameraman 's pal wanders out with a tripod , and also walks straight across the fairway . |
6 | Straight across the road ; your first turning right and there you are . ’ |
7 | The Old Dyke was a dry ditch , fifteen paces broad and about ten feet deep , backed to the west with a bank of earth , dry , decayed , tumbled , but running straight across the forest for mile after mile , monument of some forgotten war centuries old . |
8 | Flowing straight across the rocks from the slowly melting snow , the water seemed as cold and as perfectly clear as glacial ice . |
9 | To his relief , she smiled back , excused herself from Gladys , and walked straight across the rich Wilton carpet to where he was standing . |
10 | If you run it straight across the human body , you 've had it . ’ |
11 | It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom . |
12 | Lord John was hurrying round the edge of the room , making for a back entrance , but Sharpe simply took the direct route which meant jumping from table to table straight across the room . |
13 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
14 | Great by-pass roads , like the East Lancashire by-pass , now plunge straight across the country , regardless of contours , using cuttings and embankments to keep as even a gradient as possible . |
15 | straight across the dividing wall and exploded . |
16 | In the last a frontal foot shows that Hermes stood on the right above the head of the emerging monster , like Athena in fig. 121 ; and the placing of the hero is very similar though the movement ( straight across the field as in the other ) is pulling instead of pushing . |
17 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
18 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
19 | You If you lived in Stead Park , the houses in Stead Park looked straight across the green onto the sea . |
20 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
21 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
22 | His dark eyes flashed straight across the hall and pinned Jenna mercilessly . |
23 | In draws Ormanroyd near post and he 's flicked it straight across the danger area . |
24 | It went straight across the area where Deane wellied in from about 6yds . |
25 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
26 | The water went straight across the top . |
27 | I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks |
28 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
29 | glowing , I could n't stop them , straight across the floor , meoooww they were going there |
30 | the wall just going to go straight across the garden |