Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 2 | It is still early and you can drive out towards Apt and branch off across the Lubéron . |
| 3 | ‘ There was an arrangement , I freely admit it , ’ he said , bravely breaking it to her and gazing out across the valley as to a disappearing dream . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose we really ought to get down to some serious work , ’ Ruth suggested lazily , stretching her legs under the table and gazing out across the blue bay of Palma with its crowd of boats and yachts bobbing and , beyond , the profusion of high-rise apartments and hotels . |
| 5 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 6 | The police think that the prowler — that 's what they called him , not me — was disturbed and made off across the car park . ’ |
| 7 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 8 | She felt , rather than heard , how he turned smartly and loped back across the panelled hall towards the door , no doubt to drive the car round into the garage . |
| 9 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 10 | ONE MORNING EARLY IN JUNE , BETWEEN DAWN AND SUNRISE , THE headman stood on his roof and shouted out across the village that today they would build the temporary bridge over the main river and that one man from each household was needed . |
| 11 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said calmly and came back across the room . |
| 13 | He stayed where he was , leaning over the rail and looking out across the straits towards Spain . |
| 14 | He withdrew his hand and turned from her , standing in his saddle and looking out across the valley . |
| 15 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 16 | As a result , the Marines experienced no resistance as they jogged down the hurriedly lashed gangplanks , and spread out across the docks . |
| 17 | It was almost dark when the sheep squeezed through the narrow path between two houses and spilled out across the open village square . |
| 18 | Sometimes , waking very early , she would tiptoe to the narrow window and look out across the harbour , half expecting to see a ship at anchor there , newly arrived from Portugal . |
| 19 | At nights he used to go down to the shore and look out across the sea you see and he wondered what was happening back home at Greentoft and fairly homesick . |
| 20 | Our visitors rose , said their farewells and walked off across the court again . |
| 21 | He flashed Vologsky a grin which was not returned , then shrugged , turned and walked back across the tarmac towards the administration buildings . |
| 22 | As they left the beach and walked back across the green lawn Laura did n't have the opportunity to shatter Carole 's totally incorrect , if highly romantic illusions as the other woman called out to Ross . |
| 23 | In the reflection on the glass door he thought he saw a red glow from his car , and glanced back across the road . |
| 24 | Public rooms at the hotel include a comfortable lounge with TV viewing area , a pleasant bar and a restaurant which extends onto a long covered terrace running the entire length of the hotel and facing out across the promenade and the road , to the lovely lake . |
| 25 | She turned around and scampered back across the footpath to the gate , squeezed under and crept to the dish . |
| 26 | He turned off the light and crossed to the window to stand and stare out across the back of the houses . |
| 27 | A whimbrel got up with its familiar tittering whistle and flew off across the sand-flats . |
| 28 | And then coming down from a point on King Street just to the left of the existing tree , if you can imagine that , and coming back across the marketplace |
| 29 | By mauling and driving , the defence is able to reorganise and fan out across the pitch , ready for the next attack , as the English team found out to their cost in Cardiff . |
| 30 | They both turned and looked out across the fresh greenery sparkling in the April sunlight towards the solitary plume of blue smoke . |