Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clutching the sheet , letting a great hollow groan escape me , I staggered back across the room . |
| 2 | ‘ When I came back across the square , ’ she said , ‘ and saw the trees swaying , I felt like Moley following Ratty through the Wild Wood , scenting his own little house on the wind . ’ |
| 3 | I walk back across the grass and pick up my barrel-bag . |
| 4 | So I drove back across the whole of the county , from Banbury to Henley to return to Windsor , where my parents were spending the summer with us , and looked forward to telling them the news . |
| 5 | I look out across the twinkling expanse of ocean , and decide to go and see Teddy . |
| 6 | I scramble back across the sheets getting snarled up in them . |
| 7 | And so I set off across the field . |
| 8 | Ducking under the windows and stealing past the open doors , I stared out across the vegetable terrace , then walked round it . |
| 9 | I reached out across the table to touch him . |
| 10 | I lay down across the path . |
| 11 | The steersman pointed downriver to where men were working on a scaffolding which stretched out across the river . |
| 12 | We chugged past the famous Dawlish Warren , a sandy spit , rich in wildlife , which juts out across the mouth of the Exe . |
| 13 | It was n't long , of course , before the superb ‘ draught excluder ’ thus created burst into a spectacular display of flames , which shot out across the room . |
| 14 | Victoria Place home to Seacombe 's ferry terminal radiated life , echoing to the daily sound of ferries , buses and trains which bustled out across the region . |
| 15 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 16 | The warm wind blew her hair from her face and she gazed out across the sea where craggy pitons struggled up from the blue sea . |
| 17 | On the far side of the camp , she saw Jacques Devraux stripping to the waist in order to resume work at the skinning platform , and suddenly unable to remain in the hut any longer , she strolled out across the clearing again . |
| 18 | When she walked back across the yard her precious little house stared at her malignly , its nest-like quality defaced . |
| 19 | As she started back across the clearing , she found she was walking faster and faster all the time . |
| 20 | ‘ How dare you threaten me ? ’ she spat out across the table at him . |
| 21 | She reached out across the street and tried to get an idea of the shape of a building she could dimly see . |
| 22 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 23 | As she sat and waited for Clelia , she looked out across the park , at the spring trees , and tried to concentrate on her Spanish . |
| 24 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |
| 25 | She looked down across the terrace into the garden . |
| 26 | It was a contradiction in terms , Lisa found herself thinking as she looked back across the desk at him . |
| 27 | She ran back across the yard to the hen-house , through the netting gate , across the muddy enclosure , scattering hens at each step . |
| 28 | She lurched off across the room , reaching for the wall to steady herself , and disappeared upstairs . |
| 29 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 30 | With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went . |