Example sentences of "and [vb past] across at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two of the braver spirits moved closer to the road and peered across at the grass . |
| 2 | Sarah carried it carefully , but when she entered the dining room and glanced across at the guests she almost dropped it . |
| 3 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 4 | He set his glass down on the table and looked across at the bar . |
| 5 | The quiet of Hertfordshire did wonders for me , I walked in the grounds and looked across at the ‘ Immemorial elms ’ and listened for the ‘ Curfew ’ to toll the knell of parting day in the best Thomas Gray style . |
| 6 | Breeze , with a small boy on either side of her , drew in breath after breath of the wonderful air , and looked across at the horizon , where sky and water met . |
| 7 | Tom stopped at the corner where the shop stood and looked across at the Fire Station . |
| 8 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 9 | I walked to the end of the pier and looked across at the island . |
| 10 | He turned and looked across at the valet . |
| 11 | She stood still and looked across at the beer tent , shading her eyes . |
| 12 | DeVore took his eye from the lens of the electron-microscope and looked across at the geneticist , smiling , impressed by what he 'd seen . |
| 13 | They had emerged into the street and looked across at the overalled figure and the patch of wall on which he was working . |
| 14 | He stopped his horse and looked across at the friar . |
| 15 | Maggie walked out on to the balcony and looked across at the mountains . |
| 16 | The driver , a slight figure in a tweed jacket and grey flannel trousers , got out and looked across at the two women before turning to rummage behind the front seat and extract a bulky briefcase and an armful of files . |
| 17 | They stood on the banks and looked across at the blanket of fog coming from the river . |
| 18 | He settled by the window and stared across at the red brick Communist club beyond the budding trees . |