Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] across the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
2 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
3 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
4 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
5 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
6 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
7 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
8 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
9 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
10 | She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief . |
11 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
12 | Coleby stared at him across the table . |
13 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
14 | Vitor looked at her across the table . |
15 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
16 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
17 | He looked at me across the room . |
18 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
19 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
20 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
21 | Dalziel leered at him across the desk . |
22 | As it was , he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them . |
23 | Vitor said , climbing out to frown at her across the bonnet . |
24 | There was the thin voice beating at him across the desk . |