Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 2 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 3 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 4 | It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't . |
| 5 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 6 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 7 | He led them across the hall and through the dining-room , down a corridor and into what he explained was a private dining-room where members could entertain groups of friends or associates . |
| 8 | Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border . |
| 9 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 10 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 11 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 12 | The barmaid drew off two measures and passed them across the counter . |
| 13 | The eyes which met his across the table top were bright with horror and with an excitement which was too close to relish to be comfortable . |
| 14 | When pinning use needles , which are finer , and place them across the seam . |
| 15 | And do you honestly think that I normally allow females to wallop me across the face ? |
| 16 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 17 | In the face of Cadwallon 's army , Eadwine is depicted as retreating , if not fleeing , many of his army being slain as the Britons pursued them across the salt sea , and Cadwallon advances to Caer Caradog , even setting York ablaze . |
| 18 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 19 | After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch . |
| 20 | He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Yoo-hoo ! ’ yelled Jack in Wild Western imitation , but his voice tailed away as Inspector Burden of Kingsmarkham CID emerged from Queen Street and approached them across the forecourt of the Olive and Dove . |
| 22 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 23 | ‘ At first , yes , and he often summoned the Queen to meet him across the Forth , but in the weeks before he died , his visits became less frequent . |
| 24 | Another hypothesis , which is really an adaptation of the first , is that Lady Hoby , finding the boy 's shoddy work , thrashed him across the head and shoulders with a blackthorn stick and then found out , too late , that she had gone too far — William was dead . |
| 25 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 26 | As he tried in vain to jerk his head away to one side , shouting in fear , the taut rope caught him across the throat , cutting off the sound of his voice and throwing him backwards off his horse . |
| 27 | The tentacle started to pull him across the floor . |
| 28 | Her mother still helped her across the road . |
| 29 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |
| 30 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |