Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved towards us across the road . |
| 2 | In nineteen ninety four they are making us their charity of the year and offering to work with us across the U K to help raise an extra million . |
| 3 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 4 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 5 | Jenna began heatedly , but he glanced away as his mother came towards them across the lawn . |
| 6 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 7 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
| 8 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 11 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 12 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 15 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 16 | He would have had to drive to the farm , learn of Mungo 's destination from Alice , and trudge after him across the fields . |
| 17 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 18 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 19 | They tramped with it across the mud to the grass . |
| 20 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
| 21 | Those who were waking said afterwards that it did not move towards them across the sky from any direction , but burst suddenly , directly above them , in a great whirlwind and a peal of thunder . |
| 22 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |
| 23 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 24 | An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile . |
| 25 | Tim and Oliver were on the balcony , their voices coming to her across the warm stillness . |
| 26 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 27 | Suddenly I saw two huge rats run towards me across the bed . |
| 28 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 29 | Sara went with him across the grass . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll walk with you across the Common , ’ offered William . |