Slowly, great patches of blue opened in the clouds.

Then die great dark patch began to veer in a very un-cloudlike way.

He looked from her to the great patch of darkness, his mouth open in astonishment.

Or perhaps I couldn't tell, blood being the same colour as the jersey, but there was no great wet patch.

Clouds moved away to show the blue sky in great quilted patches.

He had to keep the house for a week, and laid about looking very interesting with a great black patch on his forehead.

A great patch of moisture on the front of my pants.

And far out on the plain, a great patch of mist.

The trees grew few the white sunlight came through them in great patches.

"He often laments great patches of the stuff we're taking out with such a poignant pleasure."