Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido simply winked back at her and told Silvia with a smile , as he headed off across the garden , ‘ Be sure to show her the games room while you 're at it . |
| 2 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 3 | Only then did he look out across the land . |
| 4 | He raced off across the rubble . |
| 5 | So he was one of the eighty-seven I Vologsky congratulated himself as he streaked back across the border , his mission completed . |
| 6 | He stood a little apart from them , kicking at the scree , and then he walked off across Goughdale between the crumbling towers . |
| 7 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 8 | Every few paces he glanced back across his shoulder . |
| 9 | He reached out across the floor , snatched the last paper bag . |
| 10 | He strode off across the green to his home , leaving John fuming . |
| 11 | For a moment he looked out across the water meadow , enjoying the night 's stillness , the beauty of the full moon overhead . |
| 12 | He looked out across the darkening moor , its becks and mires , its hills d bony ridges of granite . |
| 13 | He looked out across the audience again : the men were almost shoulder-to-shoulder now , across the street . |
| 14 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 15 | Like so many times before , he had gone to the window where he stared out across the night sky , his thoughts a million miles away . |
| 16 | He walks back across the town , drifting off the ground at every other step , floating the length of whole streets . |
| 17 | On this occasion he ran off across the field , but was later arrested . |
| 18 | This time he continued on across the grass until he had almost reached the summerhouse , then turned and came walking slowly back , his eyes never leaving the ground . |
| 19 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 20 | He sat down across the table from Gabriel , thinking what to say . |
| 21 | But the pressure in his bladder was growing , and he set off across the square in search of a public toilet . |
| 22 | He set off across the marble lake at a canter , with Helen panting behind . |