Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.

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1 He moved towards us across the road .
2 Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth .
3 Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe .
4 Jenna began heatedly , but he glanced away as his mother came towards them across the lawn .
5 As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl .
6 They tramped with it across the mud to the grass .
7 One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses .
8 An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile .
9 Sara went with him across the grass .
10 Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass .
11 Coleby stared at him across the table .
12 He looked at her across the pillows .
13 Vitor looked at her across the table .
14 I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it .
15 She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’
16 He looked at me across the room .
17 She laid down her cup and leaned towards him across the table .
18 ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body .
19 Dalziel leered at him across the desk .
20 As it was , he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them .
21 She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence .
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