Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blue eyes regarded her across the stretch of mahogany desk . |
| 2 | Almost as if he sensed her watching him , his eyes met hers across the pool . |
| 3 | The Tree Spirits were clinging to the black iron pipes that ran along the sides of the floor , using them as levers and pulleys to help them across the floor . |
| 4 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 5 | They took them outside , and the dogs pulled them across the ice . |
| 6 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 7 | In the face of Cadwallon 's army , Eadwine is depicted as retreating , if not fleeing , many of his army being slain as the Britons pursued them across the salt sea , and Cadwallon advances to Caer Caradog , even setting York ablaze . |
| 8 | The policemen controlling the pedestrians beckon them across the road . |
| 9 | The file of other passengers followed him across the iron-hard snow , to where a queue of strange vehicles waited for them , engines ticking over . |
| 10 | And do you honestly think that I normally allow females to wallop me across the face ? |
| 11 | One of the youths slashed him across the nose and he needed eight stitches in the wound . |
| 12 | Alternatively , you could select spiky , upright plants like agaves or yuccas to transport you across the world , figuratively speaking , to the great deserts of North America . |
| 13 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |
| 14 | One of the escorts slapped me across the mouth . |
| 15 | But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation . |
| 16 | They sat on vinyl-upholstered chairs facing her across the desk . |
| 17 | He seemed full of beans though , and after he had given me a rundown on the life cycle of the polyp , three nurses wheeled me across the corridor and into another room . |
| 18 | I slide out of my smooth new womanly skin , and slide in behind the russet freckles and bristles facing me across the office to check this analysis . |
| 19 | For centuries , bars of magnetite were used by sailors to guide them across the unvarying expanse of the oceans , and it is only fairly recently that manufactured substances have replaced this naturally occurring ore in compasses . |