Example sentences of "[vb past] me across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit . |
| 4 | I am a 39-year-old man weighing 11 stone and I was trying to cuddle my nine year old when she picked me up and threw me across the room . |
| 5 | He threw me across the front seat , and the choir applauded — whether this was for my benefit or to register approval for Quigley 's strong right arm was not clear . |
| 6 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist . |
| 8 | Something hit me across the face and it was n't the first kiss of springtime . |
| 9 | " No , John , they 'll come up through the front , " said Fielding , his arm on my shoulder now as he steered me across the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 11 | I remember one day she slapped me across the jaw . |
| 12 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 13 | So he , he slapped me across the face . |
| 14 | One of the escorts slapped me across the mouth . |
| 15 | He took me across the lake in a boat to his house . |
| 16 | He seemed full of beans though , and after he had given me a rundown on the life cycle of the polyp , three nurses wheeled me across the corridor and into another room . |
| 17 | The soldier seized me by the hair and pushed me across the garden . |
| 18 | Another time , Alan Slab , who later served a life sentence for murder , chased me across the common in the dark for being cheeky . |