Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped , mouth agape , gazing down across the Sound where Luch up on the roof was pointing . |
| 2 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 3 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm far too tired to start driving back across town now . |
| 5 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |
| 6 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 7 | I was not at the bottom of a cliff but at the top , looking down across another dusty plain four hundred feet below . |
| 8 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 9 | We 're looking down here , obviously standing on a hill because here we 've got some plants which are on the hillside and there 's a river here so we 're on sort of a fairly steep slope , I would imagine , down to the river , looking over across these vineyards . |
| 10 | She lay there , face down on her cot , her long , ash blonde hair spilling out across her naked shoulders . |
| 11 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 12 | He stayed where he was , leaning over the rail and looking out across the straits towards Spain . |
| 13 | Looking out across the headland Rickards said : ‘ He 's out there somewhere , watching , waiting . |
| 14 | Looking out across Dancer 's emerging polo fields , Miss Lodsworth first thought how beautiful as a huge fountain of water gushed a hundred feet into the air , throwing up rainbow lights in the sunshine against the yellowing trees . |
| 15 | The luncheon took place in a giant marquee with windows looking out across the polo field . |
| 16 | He stood in front of the window , looking out across the snow-locked road and smiled wryly . |
| 17 | I stopped at the church for my lunch , sitting on a hot tombstone looking out across the fields to Semer Water . |
| 18 | She would wash herself , hurriedly , and then sit in the cave , looking out across the valley , hoping that time would shift itself on soon and resolve the tangles which seemed to bind her . |
| 19 | Shepherd squatted down , looking out across the water into the darkness on the other side . |
| 20 | Much later Meg stood at the bottom of the slope , looking out across the water . |
| 21 | Meg faced the blaze again , looking out across the dark glass of the bay . |
| 22 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 23 | He shivered , looking out across the blackness of the lake , his heart suddenly in his throat . |
| 24 | At eleven the next morning , Tolonen was standing at the West Window in the Room of the Five Directions in the East Palace at Tongjiang , looking out across the gardens towards the lake . |
| 25 | He withdrew his hand and turned from her , standing in his saddle and looking out across the valley . |
| 26 | She stood there a moment , looking out across the pre-dawn darkness of the spaceport , barely conscious of the passengers pushing by , knowing that this was probably the last view she would ever have of City Europe — the City in which she had spent her whole life . |
| 27 | The two men sat on the high wall of the dyke as the dawn came , looking out across the flat expanse of blackened fields , watching the figures move almost somnolently in the darkness below . |
| 28 | Hans Ebert paused on the terrace , looking out across the gardens at the centre of the mansion where the Marshal 's daughter stood , her back to him . |
| 29 | Now , looking out across the fertile fields he has cultivated out of bush , he says , ‘ Doris and I are going to give whatever experience we have to whoever rules the country tomorrow . ’ |
| 30 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |