Example sentences of "slowly across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smoke was drifting slowly across the farm buildings in the still air . |
| 2 | Eyes turned as she walked slowly across the room , brushing by this man and that . |
| 3 | With that dulled little blade in his right hand , he began drawing it slowly across the inside of his left wrist . |
| 4 | Blattern the postman walked slowly across the green , more slowly than ever , whilst Alida waited , twitching at the curtains , and then he paused at their gate before walking past . |
| 5 | Someone was moving slowly across the tufted grass . |
| 6 | The driver of a Toyota LandCruiser changed gear and drove slowly across the bridge to halt at the roadblock . |
| 7 | On the west lawn a large motor mower progressed slowly across the sward shaving off the last half-millimetre of grass before perfection . |
| 8 | Glaciers or vast sheets of ice were moving slowly across the lowlands , just 20 000 years ago , at a time when there were only a few primitive humans living in caves in southern Britain . |
| 9 | As Lexandro looked through a quatrefoil window in the observatorium of the corvette , what he saw ahead , moving seemingly slowly across the void-gulf far from any suns , more isolated than loneliness itself , was a great glittering leviathan that seemed carved intricately of ice , with fins and ribbed wings and soaring towers whose pinnacles were linked by flying buttresses . |
| 10 | Usually , the grating is moved slowly across the field . |
| 11 | Silence spread slowly across the supper tables as the hundreds of guests turned to stare at the Rifleman who , in turn , searched the supper tables for a particular person . |
| 12 | He went slowly across the room past the bathroom he had just relinquished and found the door beyond that . |
| 13 | He slipped out from behind the skip and moved slowly across the concrete floor , the Browning gripped tightly in his hand , his eyes continually darting about him . |
| 14 | Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother . |
| 15 | As he kicked and struggled , it tilted and then , while the rabbits watched from the bank , moved slowly across the pool and grounded on the opposite side . |
| 16 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 17 | Arthur ambled slowly across the lawn . |
| 18 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 19 | A hundred yards ahead a long line of men trotted slowly across the scarred earth towards some shattered trees and broken walls . |
| 20 | Great , round clouds rolled slowly across the sky like whales and a chill wind slapped their faces as they clattered along the pavement to Angelo 's Cafe . |
| 21 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |
| 22 | The murdered man 's head fell forwards , and the blood ran slowly across the table , and down onto the floor . |
| 23 | After a moment he spotted Jordan , sitting on his tractor , moving slowly across the sky-line , silhouetted against the setting sun . |
| 24 | A thick dark blanket of cloud with torn ragged edges was moving slowly across the sky . |
| 25 | Slowly across the dusty sky |
| 26 | The slow fuse uncoiled like a snake , the assassin pulling it slowly across the floor until the end appeared under the door . |
| 27 | He lay in bed all afternoon with the light of the summer sky travelling up the walls and slowly across the ceiling . |
| 28 | Theodora watched a large , grey speckled hen parade slowly across the sweep , pause , raise an enquiring eye to the front door and pace on into the shrubbery . |
| 29 | The hunchback takes the chair and begins to push it slowly across the grass . |
| 30 | For an off trip is much the same , the idea is to keep the boat flat with the bow skimming slowly across the water without too much bow wave and the water leaving the stern very cleanly . |