Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] across the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A piercing bolt of blue fire hit Rohmer between the shoulder blades , flinging him across the office in a shower of sparks . |
| 2 | He took me across the lake in a boat to his house . |
| 3 | and we just I 'm sure that 's why they just start it , just fire it across the line in front of them , if you want to risk a false start |
| 4 | Another time , Alan Slab , who later served a life sentence for murder , chased me across the common in the dark for being cheeky . |
| 5 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
| 6 | Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation . |