Example sentences of "man [verb] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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1 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
2 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
3 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |
4 | And then he did it again in 1944 , that time from east to west , the first man to make it across the top of Canada in both directions . |
5 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |