Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.

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1 He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan .
2 She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again .
3 Helping her out of the dress , she threw it across the bed .
4 She saw his eyes become unnaturally bright and his lips begin to tremble , but as she faced him across the room , she felt neither pity nor tenderness .
5 Stars winked from the metal as she faced him across the byre .
6 Getting to her feet , she followed him across the hall and into a room that seemed dark , and faintly depressing , formal .
7 She watched him across the points of the stakes .
8 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 .
9 I remember one day she slapped me across the jaw .
10 There was a plastic model of Redd Harvest 's G-Mek V12 ‘ Nola Gay in the packet of krill , but the wheels fell off when she ran it across the table .
11 She dragged it across the Customs Hall .
12 She poured out the tea , and as she pushed it across the counter to him he handed her the penny .
13 She pushed it across the table towards Mahoney .
14 ‘ What do you think you 're doing ? ’ he barked at her striking her across the face .
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