Example sentences of "and [vb past] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood up and gazed across the garden . |
| 2 | Sadie let go of the young man 's lapels , smiled grimly , and limped across the floor to Dierdrie , waiting by the fan-shaped mirror . |
| 3 | With a harsh clatter , the scissors fell from her lifeless fingers and skidded across the floor . |
| 4 | She rose and stalked across the room , snatched her brush from the vanity table and dragged it through her hair with harsh , angry strokes . |
| 5 | After a moment , she spun on her heel and stalked across the platform to the door that led to the large communal dressing-room . |
| 6 | We mounted and rode across the darkened causeway , past the sentry , half-sleeping at the open gates and on to the trackway . |
| 7 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 8 | Denis could imagine Hardy telling the others in the unit about Hurley 's old man , such a reliable , dependable , loyal , Irish subject of King and country that he answered His Britannic Majesty 's call to arms and fought across the seas under the British Crown for the rights of small nations ! |
| 9 | He leapt to his feet and sprinted across the room . |
| 10 | The entrance was an inferno of petrol fires as flames flared and flickered across the water , sending a black column of heavy smoke mixed with the MLs ' white smoke-screens slowly rolling north-west on the still night air above the wrecked boats . |
| 11 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 12 | Silently , he went down into the water and swam across the moat . |
| 13 | And he turned and moved across the dais and out of the studio , followed by his cohort of technicians and production assistants , who thumped him on the back and shouted their own compliments into his receptive ears . |
| 14 | Marc had finished his rearrangement of the videos and moved across the room just as she herself moved forward . |
| 15 | ‘ I have a new partner , ’ he announced proudly , ‘ who sold his own tavern near the Barbican and moved across the river to be free from the prying of certain coroners ! ’ |
| 16 | He laid it beside him , and stroked across the strings , conjuring forth a shimmer of silvery sound . |
| 17 | There was a widower , two doors away , whose garden had done just that : he never touched it , and grass grew feet thick all over it , and weeds flourished , and roses climbed the hedge , unpruned , and ramped across the soil . |
| 18 | Reluctantly , and without much enthusiasm , Blair clambered down the river bank and waded across the stream . |
| 19 | She went to the edge of the roof and shouted across the village at the unnamed thief that for this he 'd be struck with paralysis ; that he 'd be smitten with cholera and die : that unless he owned up and returned the cockerel , the gods would punish his family with poverty and starvation for ever . |
| 20 | Others were appearing on the scene to lend help in forming a crowd , but Jude ignored their stares and headed across the street , Marlin at her side . |
| 21 | For there was tenderness in him , no doubt about that , Lisa reflected as they reached the foot of the path and headed across the rocky moonlit beach , his arm around her waist as though nothing could be more natural . |
| 22 | After a few seconds the Luggage got up and pattered across the floor after them . |
| 23 | Despite his lame leg , he also served with the hajduk leader Veljko in the last months of the Karadjordje revolt , and fled across the Danube when the Turks recaptured Belgrade in 1813 . |
| 24 | Moments later there was an almighty crash and a head flew in through the door of the hangar and bounced across the floor . |
| 25 | There was a spectacular incident at the finish of the race when Jonathan Aiken , in attempting to squeeze past a bunch of riders at the line , clipped a grass verge and bounced across the track but although he took a nasty looking fall he was uninjured . |
| 26 | He pocketed his winnings and wandered across the room towards Lorton . |
| 27 | I stood up , suddenly slipped , and crashed across the table onto the floor . |
| 28 | P.C. Clifford and the other policeman got into the car again and drove across the bridge to its junction with Queen Street on the City bank , giving a brief report of what had happened on the radio telephone before leaving the car . |
| 29 | ‘ Zissick , zissick , ’ it called and darted across the shingle after winged insects at the water 's edge . |
| 30 | This was fine until the wind direction changed slightly and came across the fixed line . |