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

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1	He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’
2	He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall .
3	He threw me across the front seat , and the choir applauded — whether this was for my benefit or to register approval for Quigley 's strong right arm was not clear .
4	She nodded in what she hoped was an equally casual manner and followed him across the crowded foyer to the social club .
5	Grimma followed him across the chilly floor as more nomes filed into the shed and huddled apprehensively along the walls .
6	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 .
7	As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room , Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan .
8	‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room .
9	Robert picked up a large cellophane bag , and , with a resentful glance in her direction , pulled it across the polished floor .
10	Jos led him across the dark yard to a set of double doors , near the old Lagonda .
11	The route to Abri took us across the western edge of the Nubian desert , known as the Batn el-Hagar , , the Belly of Stones .
12	She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it .
13	Diving into her beadwork reticule , she produced the letter with the American stamp , and slid it across the red chenille tablecloth .

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