Example sentences of "across at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us have glanced across at a middle-aged couple sitting at a nearby table in a restaurant and noticed their complete lack of communication . |
| 2 | She scratched , the itch coming with the thought , and looked across at a brig that was still low on the incoming tide . |
| 3 | Athelstan , patting Philomel 's nose , stared across at a now perspiring Cranston . |
| 4 | Or if by any chance the boat was not there , or too securely chained , he could swim across at a pinch . |
| 5 | Athelstan stared across at a group of dicers who sat playing noisily on the other side of the tavern . |
| 6 | She looked across at the film star , not with a great deal of pity . |
| 7 | Peggy glanced across at the six women seated nearby . |
| 8 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 9 | The Commando who had put the bomb into the mortar looked across at the Trog , shook his head and said slowly , ‘ It 's ‘ species ' ’ you silly bastard . |
| 10 | I particularly try and develop an atmosphere of autonomy in the subsidiary companies where they feel they are part of a team and can look across at the other companies and can see admirable things going on . |
| 11 | He looked across at the Woman , so that she could share his smile , but she did not smile . |
| 12 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 13 | But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar . |
| 14 | His cup drained , he looked across at the girl again . |
| 15 | She looked across at the half-hidden walking stick again . |
| 16 | Sadie looked across at the open , honest face of her husband . |
| 17 | Colonel Smith had been the thief , with Trent 's habit of loyalty as the accomplice ; the Latinos were merely the instruments , Trent thought as he looked across at the thick shape of Pedro Gomez seated on the windward side of the cockpit . |
| 18 | From the old tower , you can today look across at the concrete and mud emplacements of the occupying Israeli army two miles to the south . |
| 19 | He set his glass down on the table and looked across at the bar . |
| 20 | The quiet of Hertfordshire did wonders for me , I walked in the grounds and looked across at the ‘ Immemorial elms ’ and listened for the ‘ Curfew ’ to toll the knell of parting day in the best Thomas Gray style . |
| 21 | Forty-five kilometres downstream lies the British-aided Victoria Dam , 130 m high and 500 m across at the top . |
| 22 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 23 | Breeze , with a small boy on either side of her , drew in breath after breath of the wonderful air , and looked across at the horizon , where sky and water met . |
| 24 | Go straight across at the first crossroads . |
| 25 | Sarah carried it carefully , but when she entered the dining room and glanced across at the guests she almost dropped it . |
| 26 | He glanced across at the strange boy again . |
| 27 | They looked across at the railway station . |
| 28 | Tom stopped at the corner where the shop stood and looked across at the Fire Station . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said at last and he glanced across at the table . |
| 30 | Kidd glanced across at the cornered Volkswagen , its terrified inhabitant , the three FBI men examining the empty attaché case , two more Yankees standing back and staring hopefully at the sky , and three of his colleagues trying to take statements . |