Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 2 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 3 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 6 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 7 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He would have had to drive to the farm , learn of Mungo 's destination from Alice , and trudge after him across the fields . |
| 10 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 11 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
| 12 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sara went with him across the grass . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 18 | Coleby stared at him across the table . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She laid down her cup and leaned towards him across the table . |
| 21 | She noticed the way his chest heaved , the rivers of desire flowing from him across the room to burn her body with unbearable heat . |
| 22 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 23 | Dalziel leered at him across the desk . |
| 24 | She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence . |
| 25 | On the roof beam , stretching above him across the whole width of the room , was carved and gilded the minatory text , ‘ God 's eye seeth all ’ . |
| 26 | There was the thin voice beating at him across the desk . |