Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 4 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 5 | Her body was racked at times when the torment had almost driven her across the corridor into Andrew 's bed . |
| 6 | The blue eyes regarded her across the stretch of mahogany desk . |
| 7 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 8 | He ought to have slapped me across the face . |
| 9 | One remembered again the anger in his eyes as he had faced her across the table . |
| 10 | Next minute Perdita had slapped him across the face . |
| 11 | This meant that the high pressure system which had established itself across the country in the first part of December , and the ensuing hard freeze , was next to useless from a winter climber 's point of view , with the crags totally bare . |
| 12 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
| 13 | Had he smacked her across the face the result could not have been more devastating . |