Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] across [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got up and moved across to the bookshelves , then turned to face Merrill . |
| 2 | She took the mug and moved across to the worktop , aware of Hitch watching her every move . |
| 3 | One or two of the braver spirits moved closer to the road and peered across at the grass . |
| 4 | Joseph eased himself off the bed , and staggered across to the door . |
| 5 | Plummer took a sip of his drink and wandered across to the window , peering out into the night . |
| 6 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 7 | Seeing her husband , she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable . |
| 8 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 9 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 10 | He stood up abruptly and walked across to the window , staring outside at the same nondescript view that she herself had spent over fifteen minutes staring at earlier on . |
| 11 | Ward got out and walked across to the Indians . |
| 12 | In the Sergeants ' Mess , Sergeant Allen finished his breakfast and walked across to the armoury . |
| 13 | Julie gently replaced the receiver and walked across to the envelope . |
| 14 | Plummer got to his feet and walked across to the fireplace , staring into the flames . |
| 15 | Galvone nodded to Hauser and walked across to the picture window . |
| 16 | He rose from the bed and walked across to the chair where he had slung his jacket . |
| 17 | Sarah carried it carefully , but when she entered the dining room and glanced across at the guests she almost dropped it . |
| 18 | At the top of the pillar , the 26-year-old guide picked up a new sack of food and popped across to the Freney face to solo a new direct version of the Central Pillar ( Chris Bonington 's finest hour ) . |
| 19 | On hearing he mother 's footsteps approaching , she fled to the wall-head and leapt across to the tower in which her chamber was situated ; the gap between is today known as the ‘ Maiden 's Leap ’ . |
| 20 | I quickly trod out the flickering twists of paper , and scrambled across to the door . |
| 21 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 22 | Robert had to say it again before she heard him and looked across to the table where Aunt Tossie and Andrew were drinking and Lalage was jumping up and down , opening her mouth to catch with complete dexterity the pieces of biscuit that Dada , suddenly lively , was throwing into it . |
| 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 | DeVore took his eye from the lens of the electron-microscope and looked across at the geneticist , smiling , impressed by what he 'd seen . |
| 25 | Maggie walked out on to the balcony and looked across at the mountains . |
| 26 | He set his glass down on the table and looked across at the bar . |
| 27 | They stood on the banks and looked across at the blanket of fog coming from the river . |
| 28 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 29 | He turned and looked across at the valet . |
| 30 | He stopped his horse and looked across at the friar . |