Example sentences of "[pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I across the to get some and ended on my bollocks . |
| 2 | In his Across the Plains ( 1892 ) he wrote : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her hand darted out to his across the table . |
| 5 | Alternatively , you could select spiky , upright plants like agaves or yuccas to transport you across the world , figuratively speaking , to the great deserts of North America . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cornish Adventure Sailing will do all this and even take you across the Bay of Biscay to La Coruna in northern Spain . |
| 8 | The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone but with a very efficient tram service to take you across the town . |
| 9 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 10 | But beware , this tameness leads them to be very bold in defence of their nest , and they will laugh a strident ‘ heh , heh , heh ’ as they clip you across the ear with a stiffly held wing-tip ! |
| 11 | Do you have safety first , they 'll be able to throw you across the room ? |
| 12 | They 'll throw you across the room |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll walk with you across the Common , ’ offered William . |
| 14 | One man in particular er again I wo n't mention his name but anybody that went to Road School 'll know who I , I mean when I say that if you did anything wrong he 'd call you out and ask you something and if you , if you like pupils used to be a bit shy and , and not speak to him he 'd slap you across the face . |
| 15 | you across the road and stop the traffic and all this . |
| 16 | All those things happen to you , all those hormones , particularly adrenaline have got into your bloodstream because you need this sudden burst of energy to get you across the road . |
| 17 | Have they , well did they cut you across the palm of your hand ? |
| 18 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 19 | In between yeah , here 's Alice , he sh here she is she 'll come and talk to you across the world be go be going be going back tomorrow |
| 20 | He looked full of himself but Cameron steered him across the street into the privacy of his store before he would let him talk . |
| 21 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 22 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 23 | The dragon homed in on Olybrius ' wrath , which called him across the continent . |
| 24 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 25 | A desire to touch them , to feel the smooth hardness of living wood again , brought him across the tarmacadam to the grass , which felt spongy and cool under him . |
| 26 | The Woman stood up and faced him across the table . |
| 27 | Jos led him across the dark yard to a set of double doors , near the old Lagonda . |
| 28 | He would have had to drive to the farm , learn of Mungo 's destination from Alice , and trudge after him across the fields . |
| 29 | To save time , he decided to take the bicycle with him across the fields so that he could ride it on the smoother sections . |
| 30 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |