Example sentences of "[verb] him across [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another hypothesis , which is really an adaptation of the first , is that Lady Hoby , finding the boy 's shoddy work , thrashed him across the head and shoulders with a blackthorn stick and then found out , too late , that she had gone too far — William was dead . |
| 2 | As he tried in vain to jerk his head away to one side , shouting in fear , the taut rope caught him across the throat , cutting off the sound of his voice and throwing him backwards off his horse . |
| 3 | The tentacle started to pull him across the floor . |
| 4 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 5 | While the pub had been emptying of its customers , and Fritz had been covering down behind the counter , Mrs Nora had grabbed a broom and , holding it in both hands like a bat , had waited until the Turk had turned to face her — and then cracked him across the forehead . |
| 6 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 7 | Outside , the sun lashed him across the forehead with a warning of another headache to come , and he wished he had n't had a drink with lunch at paderborn . |
| 8 | One of the youths slashed him across the nose and he needed eight stitches in the wound . |
| 9 | A SECURITY guard cheated death when a thug slashed him across the neck with a Stanley knife . |
| 10 | The front-seat passenger leapt out and slashed him across the neck . |
| 11 | If he feels very unsafe , because the traffic is moving fast , he may prefer to ask a passer-by to help him across the road . |
| 12 | ‘ It sounds as if you enjoyed it , ’ she said , leading him across the room . |
| 13 | She saw his eyes become unnaturally bright and his lips begin to tremble , but as she faced him across the room , she felt neither pity nor tenderness . |
| 14 | The Woman stood up and faced him across the table . |
| 15 | Ruth shot to her feet and faced him across the table . |
| 16 | Stars winked from the metal as she faced him across the byre . |
| 17 | All hint of smile vanishing , the giant cuffed him across the side of the head — only lightly so , yet Lexandro 's teeth rattled and the iron chair rocked . |
| 18 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 19 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |
| 20 | He watched curiously as the Men and the People followed him across the field and over the fence which the tree was beyond . |
| 21 | Corbett followed him across the yard as the English envoy made his way carefully through the throng and up a flight of steep stairs into the main keep of the castle . |
| 22 | Getting to her feet , she followed him across the hall and into a room that seemed dark , and faintly depressing , formal . |
| 23 | As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance . |
| 24 | Willie followed him across the passage to Tom 's bedroom . |
| 25 | We followed him across the street and down crumbling cement stairs into a fetid basement that stank of excrement , a place two feet deep in sodden papers , envelopes , parcels and stained government forms . |
| 26 | Vologsky followed him across the street and into the park . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing , ’ Lucy said , taking another chair from by the wall and bringing it over so that she could sit facing him across the desk . |
| 28 | Ruth felt suddenly weak , and went down on her knees in a patch of ferns , facing him across the pool . |
| 29 | Beattie sat facing him across the table during his interview . |
| 30 | Culley pulled on the man 's hair as if it were a bell rope , backhanded him across the throat again , then clamped his hand over Schmidt 's mouth . |