Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room , Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan . |
| 3 | He rose politely as the waiter ferried her across the room . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The travellers ' flight took them across the desert . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch . |
| 11 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She halted as Rune 's hand sought hers across the table , covering it with overt compassion . |
| 14 | A SECURITY guard cheated death when a thug slashed him across the neck with a Stanley knife . |
| 15 | There was a vicious crack like a pistol-shot and the lash struck him across the back , splitting open the shirt , tearing the skin . |
| 16 | The carpenter looked at him , then at Benedicta and , throwing back his head , laughed hysterically until the porter struck him across the face . |
| 17 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 18 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 19 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |
| 20 | ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist . |