Example sentences of "he [vb past] across the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He staggered across the bouncing floor to the doorway and cautiously peered out . |
| 2 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 3 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |
| 4 | He was educated privately at home , and never knew there were other deaf people in the world until he came across the manual alphabet in one of the publications he was reading , and out of curiosity mastered it . |
| 5 | Elsie had wept for kind Mrs Doran and for her husband , that strange , silent , sympathetic man , lifting his feet cautiously as he sidled across the polished floor . |
| 6 | He walked across the small park on the far side of the street towards the vast exhibition centre , glancing back frequently : he 'd chosen this route because it was impossible for Marler to follow him without being seen . |
| 7 | He walked across the white square . |
| 8 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 9 | He glanced across the flickering , urban horizon . |
| 10 | Tommy bolted off like a greyhound released from the slips , and the two other men watched as he scampered across the open ground , until some twenty seconds later he reached the safety of the trees . |
| 11 | He scuttled across the rich thick carpet like a toddler , making her laugh . |
| 12 | Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square . |
| 13 | He strode across the snow-covered grass like a charging bullock , Athelstan hurrying behind him . |
| 14 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 15 | At first , as he battled across the outside pavement and through the raging wind , Cardiff was convinced that a bomb had been detonated on the forecourt outside the office block . |
| 16 | He ran across the empty alley between the tumbledown buildings and squeezed his way in through a crack in the sagging door . |
| 17 | He ran across the wet road and over to the hospital entrance before any of them could answer him . |
| 18 | He was back in bed with Betty , getting there , getting there , his foot on the accelerator as he shot across the main road that took a steady morning stream of vehicles to the coast . |
| 19 | Looking into the distance , he pointed across the new estates , nearby . |
| 20 | He pointed across the stable yard at an old , disused door propped against a wall . |
| 21 | Once they were outside , he pointed across the level land towards the loch . |