Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 2 | But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty . |
| 3 | ‘ At first , yes , and he often summoned the Queen to meet him across the Forth , but in the weeks before he died , his visits became less frequent . |
| 4 | Outside , the sun lashed him across the forehead with a warning of another headache to come , and he wished he had n't had a drink with lunch at paderborn . |
| 5 | A patrolling MTB picked them up , and Bob Smith later launched the battered canoe to paddle her across the harbour to the submarine base . |
| 6 | As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room , Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan . |
| 7 | He rose politely as the waiter ferried her across the room . |
| 8 | She used Rosalind 's flashlight to take her across the kitchen 's frayed linoleum to the corridor . |
| 9 | The rain struck him across the face like a whiplash as he fought to keep the bike upright and driving for the protection of the leeward bank . |
| 10 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 11 | They have two lenses , one light to face an approaching train and the other to reflect it across the rails . |
| 12 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 13 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 14 | The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone but with a very efficient tram service to take you across the town . |
| 15 | The wizard pulled himself across the floor , painfully , and whispered , ‘ What the hell was that ? ’ |
| 16 | Billie hurled herself at them , tried to push them away from Adam , but the storm-trooper with the bucket hit her across the head with it , sent her sprawling backwards across the room . |
| 17 | Ace threw herself across the cabin . |
| 18 | All hint of smile vanishing , the giant cuffed him across the side of the head — only lightly so , yet Lexandro 's teeth rattled and the iron chair rocked . |
| 19 | The travellers ' flight took them across the desert . |
| 20 | At 11 p.m. , he made sure there was still plenty of tape left on the machine and departed , returning at 8 a.m. the following morning to take it across the street to Syrian George . |
| 21 | As he did he drove a fist hard into Connelly 's face , the impact propelling him across the kitchen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As he tried in vain to jerk his head away to one side , shouting in fear , the taut rope caught him across the throat , cutting off the sound of his voice and throwing him backwards off his horse . |
| 24 | After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch . |
| 25 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 26 | The summery sound of a corn bunting 's ‘ jangling keys ’ song followed us across the fields as , at day 's end , we finally made our way back to the car . |
| 27 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |
| 28 | Seizing a bunch of roses from the display outside the Rose Bowl 's window , Folly launched herself across the street . |
| 29 | And then he did it again in 1944 , that time from east to west , the first man to make it across the top of Canada in both directions . |
| 30 | Rune opened the door propelling her across the threshold , turning her in his arms as he thrust the door closed behind them with his foot . |