Example sentences of "she [vb past] across the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , pulling herself upright , she moved across the little sitting room and to the stairs that went straight up from the corner of the room . |
| 2 | Abandoning the kitchen , she wandered across the large living-room to the windows . |
| 3 | She tiptoed across the wide polished boards , past the stuffed bear with his arms full of walking sticks , the brass-faced longcase clock , the dignified portrait of old Mr Jarman with his watching eyes , and quietly opened the door , drawing in great breaths of sharp fresh air , revelling in this stolen freedom . |
| 4 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 5 | She tells us about one she came across the other day . |
| 6 | She clumped across the star-patterned mosaic towards the walk-in cupboard where the ski-gear was kept . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Armstrong ! ’ she bellowed across the crowded Hall . |
| 8 | In the glare of the lightning flashes she rushed across the flooded clearing and did n't stop until she reached Jacques Devraux 's hut . |
| 9 | She walked across the strange tarmac . |
| 10 | She walked across the semicircular pod bay towards the monitor station , sealed behind a transparent partition . |
| 11 | Fran took a deep breath then opened the door , willing her legs to support her as she walked across the weed-strewn gravel towards him . |
| 12 | There was no blood on the bandage , but as she glanced across the broad sweep of his back Isabel realised suddenly how close Guy had come to being killed . |
| 13 | Slipping on a light cotton robe , she padded across the thick bedroom carpet , through the large living-room and into the kitchen . |
| 14 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 15 | She lay across the big bed with her head thrown back so that her long hair fell like a veil of copper across the coverlet . |