Example sentences of "it [v-ing] across the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kicked the chair aside with a violence that sent it crashing across the floor . |
| 2 | She could imagine it clanging across the hall , up the stairway , along the draughty corridors , around the drawing-room and out through the open windows . |
| 3 | Are we talking about just small businesses or is it happening across the board ? |
| 4 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 5 | By then the noise of the avalanche had died away , only the echoes of it reverberating across the valley , and when I shifted into the driving seat and looked back , the road behind us had ceased to exist . |
| 6 | They could see it racing across the ground ahead of them — grey around the edges , spreading into the darkness of night . |
| 7 | Lightning flashed , an enormous zigzag of it ripping across the sky , followed by a deep rumble of thunder . |
| 8 | Tamar gave it a flick , which sent it swirling across the room . |
| 9 | Both of them jump back slightly as a cat darts in front of them as they leave the park , they both watch it running across the road without looking and then scramble up a wall to window ledge . |
| 10 | Her stabbing nails had torn his left upper eyelid and blood from the wound dribbled down the side of his face , some of it running across the orb itself , turning one half of his world crimson . |
| 11 | Creggan thumped straight into him at speed , the sound of it travelling across the glen . |
| 12 | Then he opened them and kicked savagely at a lump of dried mud , sending it sailing across the yard to explode against the side of the stable . |
| 13 | He refolded the paper dart neatly and sent it skimming across the tea-table . |