Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 2 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 3 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 4 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 5 | It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't . |
| 6 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He led them across the hall and through the dining-room , down a corridor and into what he explained was a private dining-room where members could entertain groups of friends or associates . |
| 9 | One of the sentries took their horses and led them across Tower Green , now ankle-deep in icy slush , to where a depressed-looking Colebrooke was waiting . |
| 10 | Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border . |
| 11 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 12 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 13 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 14 | The barmaid drew off two measures and passed them across the counter . |
| 15 | The eyes which met his across the table top were bright with horror and with an excitement which was too close to relish to be comfortable . |
| 16 | When pinning use needles , which are finer , and place them across the seam . |
| 17 | That is , unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table . |
| 18 | And do you honestly think that I normally allow females to wallop me across the face ? |
| 19 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 20 | In the face of Cadwallon 's army , Eadwine is depicted as retreating , if not fleeing , many of his army being slain as the Britons pursued them across the salt sea , and Cadwallon advances to Caer Caradog , even setting York ablaze . |
| 21 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 22 | After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch . |
| 23 | He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yoo-hoo ! ’ yelled Jack in Wild Western imitation , but his voice tailed away as Inspector Burden of Kingsmarkham CID emerged from Queen Street and approached them across the forecourt of the Olive and Dove . |
| 25 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 26 | ‘ At first , yes , and he often summoned the Queen to meet him across the Forth , but in the weeks before he died , his visits became less frequent . |
| 27 | Another hypothesis , which is really an adaptation of the first , is that Lady Hoby , finding the boy 's shoddy work , thrashed him across the head and shoulders with a blackthorn stick and then found out , too late , that she had gone too far — William was dead . |
| 28 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 29 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 30 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |