Example sentences of "at him across the " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard .
2	The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’
3	I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it .
4	But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty .
5	Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass .
6	Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car .
7	Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth .
8	Coleby stared at him across the table .
9	There was the thin voice beating at him across the desk .
10	When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips .
11	She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief .
12	Dalziel leered at him across the desk .
13	Gazing with deliberate dreaminess at him across the table , she watched him respond , smoothing back his hair , raising an eyebrow .
14	Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not .
15	On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him .
16	She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence .

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