Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 2 | I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage . |
| 3 | It was still daylight as Rune , having parked the car and guided her across the road , stood back to let her precede him through the Tivoli turnstiles . |
| 4 | ‘ The owner of the castle would put his family into a boat and row them across the lake to church every Sunday . |
| 5 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 6 | She sighed , coveting the memory , then went on : ‘ Did the Cap'n buy thee from the Guinea Coast and ship thee across the sea ? ’ |
| 7 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 8 | Or he could wash cars , polish shoes or more lucratively , engage in the growing underground economy selling rare commodities at home or smuggling them across the border to nearby Zaire . |
| 9 | The tornado picked up their mobile home and dumped it across the street . |
| 10 | The soldier seized me by the hair and pushed me across the garden . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , they 'll have to , ’ said Nicholson pulling the necktie from his shirt and flinging it across the back of a chair . |
| 12 | At last he sat back , tousled and infuriated , crumpled the cheque and hurled it across the room . |
| 13 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 14 | He poured wine and brought it across the room to Owen 's chair , pressing him back brusquely when he would have risen to receive the cup . |
| 15 | Next minute Ricky had walked into the room and slapped her across the face . |
| 16 | So when the great lady detective drew a hair from her head and stuck it across the lock on the front door of Sir Vivien 's motor car , Constable Quince said nothing . |
| 17 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
| 18 | With his right hand Quinn twisted a blob of the brown substance off , rolled it into a ball and tossed it across the floor to Zack . |
| 19 | Roaring with fury , the bear dug his claws into the dying knight 's unprotected back and dragged him across the cobbles , bellows of rage proclaiming its triumph . |
| 20 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 21 | He folded the paper and tossed it across the table to eagerly awaiting hands . |
| 22 | I uncrease the paper and open it across the table as if to read . |
| 23 | ‘ Now the chief priest is going to say a prayer for the boats on the beach , ’ he explained , as they went with other spectators to join in behind the end of the procession and follow it across the square and on to the sand . |
| 24 | And this , ’ he pulled Lazlo 's map from his pocket and flung it across the table , ‘ The great detective left this behind when he and Rex fled from his office last night . |
| 25 | He took a square of white card from his pocket and flicked it across the table . |
| 26 | Dane pulled his car-keys from his pocket and handed them across the table . |
| 27 | She nodded in what she hoped was an equally casual manner and followed him across the crowded foyer to the social club . |
| 28 | She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees . |
| 29 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 30 | as if from nowhere Henry , too , appeared and , crouching in the corner of the couch , Emma now watched him struggling with her mother , and when he wrenched the poker from her hand and flung it across the room , there was the sound of splintering wood , which brought about an inevitable silence , punctuated only by gasps . |