Example sentences of "and [verb] across [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood up and gazed across the garden . |
| 2 | Sadie let go of the young man 's lapels , smiled grimly , and limped across the floor to Dierdrie , waiting by the fan-shaped mirror . |
| 3 | When I negotiate this person , they always go and sit across the desk . |
| 4 | Hubert Molland pulled over towards the wall and stopped across the entrance of a drive . |
| 5 | With a harsh clatter , the scissors fell from her lifeless fingers and skidded across the floor . |
| 6 | After a moment , she spun on her heel and stalked across the platform to the door that led to the large communal dressing-room . |
| 7 | She rose and stalked across the room , snatched her brush from the vanity table and dragged it through her hair with harsh , angry strokes . |
| 8 | He held his hand to his forehead and loped across the bar toward the beautiful girl in the corner . |
| 9 | He reached inside his tweed jacket and passed across a Security Service pass — the sort used by MI5 officers to identify themselves when in trouble . |
| 10 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 11 | If he loses the trail , he turns and flies across the wind until he picks up her scent again . |
| 12 | He leapt to his feet and sprinted across the room . |
| 13 | The entrance was an inferno of petrol fires as flames flared and flickered across the water , sending a black column of heavy smoke mixed with the MLs ' white smoke-screens slowly rolling north-west on the still night air above the wrecked boats . |
| 14 | He built roads , civilized the people and departed across the sea on a magic ‘ raft of serpents ’ . |
| 15 | Silently , he went down into the water and swam across the moat . |
| 16 | ‘ I have a new partner , ’ he announced proudly , ‘ who sold his own tavern near the Barbican and moved across the river to be free from the prying of certain coroners ! ’ |
| 17 | And he turned and moved across the dais and out of the studio , followed by his cohort of technicians and production assistants , who thumped him on the back and shouted their own compliments into his receptive ears . |
| 18 | Marc had finished his rearrangement of the videos and moved across the room just as she herself moved forward . |
| 19 | times Snaith was a busy port with a harbour and ferry across the river to Selby , one of the few Aire crossings in the area . |
| 20 | There was a widower , two doors away , whose garden had done just that : he never touched it , and grass grew feet thick all over it , and weeds flourished , and roses climbed the hedge , unpruned , and ramped across the soil . |
| 21 | Reluctantly , and without much enthusiasm , Blair clambered down the river bank and waded across the stream . |
| 22 | She went to the edge of the roof and shouted across the village at the unnamed thief that for this he 'd be struck with paralysis ; that he 'd be smitten with cholera and die : that unless he owned up and returned the cockerel , the gods would punish his family with poverty and starvation for ever . |
| 23 | Others were appearing on the scene to lend help in forming a crowd , but Jude ignored their stares and headed across the street , Marlin at her side . |
| 24 | After a few seconds the Luggage got up and pattered across the floor after them . |
| 25 | This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground . |
| 26 | Moments later there was an almighty crash and a head flew in through the door of the hangar and bounced across the floor . |
| 27 | There was a spectacular incident at the finish of the race when Jonathan Aiken , in attempting to squeeze past a bunch of riders at the line , clipped a grass verge and bounced across the track but although he took a nasty looking fall he was uninjured . |
| 28 | He pocketed his winnings and wandered across the room towards Lorton . |
| 29 | I stood up , suddenly slipped , and crashed across the table onto the floor . |
| 30 | You went from Street , if you went downstairs and come out the back road and cut across the square you were in Street . |