Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they across the " in BNC.
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1 | As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room , Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan . |
2 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
3 | The travellers ' flight took them across the desert . |
4 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
5 | After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch . |