Example sentences of "he [verb] across [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
| 2 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 3 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 4 | The door shot open , knocking Bill from his feet and sending him sprawling across the sidewalk . |
| 5 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
| 6 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 7 | I could hear him running across the landing and messing about . |
| 8 | I could hear him running across the landing I said , and messing about . |
| 9 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 10 | Simon was good-looking , Marie thought , as she watched him cut across the beach on a long diagonal towards the kiosk . |
| 11 | ‘ What on earth are you doing ? ’ she felt compelled to ask while watching him stride across the room . |
| 12 | It was almost a running dive he made across the gallery and to his bedroom , but he did it on tip-toe . |
| 13 | Doone pondered , made up his mind , went out to his car and returned carrying a five-foot plank which he laid across the kitchen table . |
| 14 | I heard the machine that he rubs across the floor start up with that horrendous howl that makes my teeth curl . |
| 15 | He limped across the pavement and clambered into his car . |
| 16 | He swooped across the market square in Antioch , while the crowd fell back appalled , and opening his huge mouth , like a salmon to a fly , snapped Margaret up . |
| 17 | As he passed across a cup of coffee , he asked Jim if it was ‘ going all right ’ . |
| 18 | The idea for the first excursion had flashed through his brain as he tramped across the middle of England from Market Harborough to Leicester on his way to attend a temperance meeting . |
| 19 | He hopped across the ditch to the farther bank and looked round him again . |
| 20 | ‘ Either he lost it as he crept across the moat to kill Sir Ralph or else someone put it there . |
| 21 | There he goes across the concourse at Charing Cross with the rest of the commuters . |
| 22 | He sits across the table from Mrs Thatcher and her team , which can be a mixture of people from the Downing Street Private Office , the Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office , with one or two personal advisers and sometimes a Treasury minister . |
| 23 | He leered across the table . |
| 24 | He loped across the bar , swinging his hips to show off his twin Colts , and got his polished pseudoleather boot up on the bar . |
| 25 | He gazed across a sea of Union Jacks , stood like a guardsman for the national anthem and admitted : ‘ This is a fantastic day for me . |
| 26 | He swam across the lake towards the silted-up island in the middle where a pair of swans nested . |
| 27 | For example , he swam across the Firth of Clyde on four occasions , and across the Firth of Forth on one occasion — perhaps his greatest and most dangerous feat was to swim across part of the often stormy Pentland Firth at the top of Scotland from John O'Groats to the island of Stroma . |
| 28 | Ronni had followed Guido from the room , running to keep pace with him as he headed across the hall . |
| 29 | Despite his protestation , he moved across the studio to inspect the photograph closely . |
| 30 | He moved across the room and out of the door without a glance at Gwen . |