Example sentences of "at him across the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 2 | There was the thin voice beating at him across the desk . |
| 3 | Dalziel leered at him across the desk . |
| 4 | She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief . |
| 5 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 6 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 7 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 9 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 10 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 11 | Coleby stared at him across the table . |
| 12 | Gazing with deliberate dreaminess at him across the table , she watched him respond , smoothing back his hair , raising an eyebrow . |
| 13 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 14 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |