Example sentences of "across [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I 'm wondering if I have time to nip across to silence it , there 's a burst of shouting that nearly jolts it off the table . |
| 2 | Inchbad had moved across to sit beside her and had taken her hand between his finger and thumb and was exclaiming what a pretty little thing she was and it the shame of the world that her brother had had to ride of land leave her all alone . |
| 3 | Chief Justice Fortescue slid in like a spider , scuttling across to sit next to the Duke . |
| 4 | Turning to look up at him , Hilary absently took the glass he was holding out , then watched him walk across to sit on the sofa . |
| 5 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 6 | I can remember Rachel looking at me with scorn and saying , Mummy , you must be mad , in this heat ! '' However , if was one of our own small fighter planes , and we rushed across to see it land . |
| 7 | She looked across to see if her father was still awake . |
| 8 | He looked across to see if he could catch a glimpse of Nenna and the girls , and ask them what they thought about it , but everybody seemed to have gone ashore . |
| 9 | Harvey said , ‘ Not when you are around maybe , but when he goes across to see the Wilsons ’ cat … ’ |
| 10 | He said he was called Horn and he 'd popped across to see the Duke of Hamilton or somesuch . |
| 11 | Threw a line across to see the fishing |
| 12 | and I went across to see how she was and he says I 'm expecting her home today , that were Thursday , so that was |
| 13 | One morning after breakfast and a prolonged peering into the mirror , Arty broke and screamed at Phil , who had come across to borrow a newspaper . |
| 14 | He looked across to confirm Blanche was paying attention . |
| 15 | He hurried across to greet them , his ruddy face alight with pleasure . |
| 16 | Best of all , their own old gentleman was there , and he came across to shake their hands . |
| 17 | They could be dining on board or coming across to dine here later . |
| 18 | Jehan saw him reach across to catch hold of her reins . |
| 19 | And er I told them that er I was n't p p p prepared er because they was there during the day as well , it did n't used to across to catch the school bus , and be half a dozen or so come back next door , and stop there till about twenty past three then go back , come back over as if he 's got out the bus . |
| 20 | She leaned across to pull the door shut after him and felt his warm breath on her cheek . |
| 21 | I go across to commiserate . |
| 22 | 48 across to adjust thickness |
| 23 | takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky . |
| 24 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 25 | I went across to talk to Jim Rosenthal for ITV . |
| 26 | He ran across to talk to the senator and his father while Joseph collected his light Winchester carbine from the hut he was to share with his brother . |
| 27 | As the wave reaches the cell periphery , enough calcium may diffuse across to activate the neighbouring cell . |
| 28 | She averted her head , blonde hair swinging across to screen her face . |
| 29 | we 'll have a talk first and then he 's going to have a walk , a walk round the centre , look at the facilities , and er , then go and do , do the ropes course and then we 're going to head across to set up camp and which is in a field outside the centre |
| 30 | DeVore laughed , then reached across to pick it up . |