Example sentences of "[to-vb] across to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 2 | The sight and smell of the waterfront drew her as always , giving her enough courage to slip across to Broad Quay . |
| 3 | Hundreds of motorists abandoned their cars to dash across to a local radio station after a DJ offered scores of free tickets to the band 's concert . |
| 4 | ‘ Gracious , ’ said the red-faced man , turning to talk across to their separate table . |
| 5 | The shock delayed any panic and I forced myself to walk across to the body and look at the face . |
| 6 | He allowed her to walk across to the counter for a cup of tea because he felt she was flustered , not an emotion one easily associated with Sergeant Henley , and it might settle her down . |
| 7 | I started to walk across to the pile and as I did , all my toys came to life and stood in a line facing me . |
| 8 | ‘ If you have a boat , ’ I thought , ‘ it 's easy to sail across to this island . |
| 9 | He tells the story of one occasion when he and two friends decided to swim across to the island from Aberdour . |
| 10 | If a Thursday coincided with a Saints Day , we were rewarded by being able to go across to Mrs. Robbins ' after the service and order a pennyworth of sweets apiece — the Hospital trustees picking up the bill . |
| 11 | It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall . |
| 12 | I could never visit Kyle of Lochalsh without feeling an impelling urge to go across to Skye , and now , in writing this book , which was originally intended to be about the mainland only , I find that I simply can not pass the island by without a further look at its highlight , the Black Cuillin . |
| 13 | You 've got to go across to Grace . " |
| 14 | I wanted to go across to the hill and search for him , but we were tired and I remembered that Sir Henry might be in danger . |
| 15 | Linda felt better after an hour away and glad she 'd made the effort to go across to Mrs Smythe . |
| 16 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 17 | It 's difficult to get across to those who did n't know him just how outlandish this idea seemed . |
| 18 | It is this message that members of the newly-formed west Suffolk Zipper Club want to get across to people who face the agonising prospect of such a serious operation . |
| 19 | That is what he wants to get across to the other person . |
| 20 | The reason that such diverse interests need public relations is obvious when you consider how much information many of them have to get across to ordinary people . |
| 21 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 22 | He would play us a popular classical piece , explaining what the compose was trying to get across to the listener . |
| 23 | ‘ I took the photograph and I wanted to stride across to you , to confront you with your father , but he would not allow it . ’ |
| 24 | The smaller man was hit first , and then the taller man had seemed to move across to him , and then he had been hit . |
| 25 | To get around this , Locus has written extra kernel-level facilities , including a remote execution function call which will communicate with different RPCs , and has made modifications to the file system — allowing current applications to migrate across to DCE and ONC without re-coding . |
| 26 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |