Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 3 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 4 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 5 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 7 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 8 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 9 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |
| 10 | Tim and Oliver were on the balcony , their voices coming to her across the warm stillness . |
| 11 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 12 | Standing before her across the water was the most enormous beast Anabelle had ever seen . |
| 13 | She noticed the way his chest heaved , the rivers of desire flowing from him across the room to burn her body with unbearable heat . |
| 14 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 15 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 16 | Yes , because actually thinking about it across the board , those energetic women in soaps have been married off or calmed down . |
| 17 | On the roof beam , stretching above him across the whole width of the room , was carved and gilded the minatory text , ‘ God 's eye seeth all ’ . |
| 18 | There was the thin voice beating at him across the desk . |