Example sentences of "it [vb past] across [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the hook went in it charged across the river into a weedbed on the other bank , where it decided to sulk and play at immovable objects . |
| 2 | He kicked the grey into a gallop , and it thundered across the grass , throwing up torn lichen and humus . |
| 3 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 4 | The long , winding column of armed men , on horses , on mules and on foot , was an unforgettable sight as it moved across the plain in a haze of dust under a blazing sky . |
| 5 | It was just about to stab when Bigwig ran straight into it from behind and knocked it sideways , so that it staggered across the turf with a harsh , raucous cawing of rage . |
| 6 | A man has been killed after riding on the boot of a car as it drove across a seaside caravan site . |
| 7 | It raced across the floor , leaking mayonnaise . |
| 8 | It clattered across the path and bounced against what looked like the battered frame of an old pram , with a bang like a pistol shot . |
| 9 | It cut across the boundary between the two hundreds and was later centred on the Norman castle at Nether Stowey . |
| 10 | It trailed across the dust , occasionally halting in dark brown cakes , from room to room , not through the doors sealed up with breeze-blocks but through holes in the walls , holes through which we crawled , troglodytes all . |
| 11 | It looked across the street at one of Woodborough 's dental practices , so that people passed the windows all day in various stages of apprehension and relief . |
| 12 | As it was , the ‘ smokeless shimmer of vapour ’ was so cooled by cleaning that it drifted across the river to cause mischief with the leadwork on Wren 's great dome . |
| 13 | It sped across the grass and leapt up onto Jehana 's lap . |
| 14 | She took her stance and struck the ball ; it sped across the grass like a bullet , struck the rim of the hole and shot out again . |
| 15 | Defries , Daak and Ace could n't take their eyes from it as the shuttle took them inexorably towards it and it grew across the window . |
| 16 | It rolled across the desk to the edge , and then took off behind me for the rear of the craft ; it fell to the floor-what we call ‘ the floor ’ when the craft is on the pad . |
| 17 | It arced across the well of the court , striking the smaller of the two in the back . |
| 18 | It ran across the road , it even |
| 19 | It ran across the lake to the pontoon . |
| 20 | And from the resulting corner , Mark Stein got his head to the ball , it flashed across the face of the Wolves goal , bounced off the crossbar and the chance had gone . |
| 21 | Yes , and the second time that happened it swept across the standing walls there , and in the near end of the caldarium there was somebody standing by the wall . |
| 22 | A virulent form of the endemic bubonic plagues of medieval Europe , it swept across the country from the south-west and down from London . |
| 23 | Slowly , it slid across the table . |