Example sentences of "looked across [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze , with a small boy on either side of her , drew in breath after breath of the wonderful air , and looked across at the horizon , where sky and water met . |
| 2 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 3 | They stood on the banks and looked across at the blanket of fog coming from the river . |
| 4 | DeVore looked away thoughtfully ; looked across at the window wall and at the gathering in the garden room beyond it . |
| 5 | Li Yuan looked across at the pile of folders balanced on the far side of his father 's desk . |
| 6 | He turned and looked across at the valet . |
| 7 | Huy looked across at the Controller of the Silver Mines . |
| 8 | He set his glass down on the table and looked across at the bar . |
| 9 | He looked across at the hour candle on the table . |
| 10 | He looked across at the hour candle and saw it was growing late . |
| 11 | Now he looked across at the telephone . |
| 12 | She looked across at the scene as once again the actress ran and fell and the gunmen rose from the car wrecks where the nudes lay or sat reading aloud . |
| 13 | DeVore took his eye from the lens of the electron-microscope and looked across at the geneticist , smiling , impressed by what he 'd seen . |
| 14 | But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar . |
| 15 | His cup drained , he looked across at the girl again . |
| 16 | The T'ang smiled sadly , then looked across at the boy . |
| 17 | Tolonen looked across at the boy , trying to see him as Spatz saw him ; as he himself had first seen him , before he had seen the films that demonstrated the boy 's abilities . |
| 18 | She looked across at the film star , not with a great deal of pity . |
| 19 | I walked to the end of the pier and looked across at the island . |
| 20 | So now Theodora looked across at the Inspector , wondering just how much she was prepared to say to this man . |
| 21 | Gedanken looked across at the dock . |
| 22 | The TV presenter looked across at the sergeant , as though registering his presence for the first time . |
| 23 | She stood still and looked across at the beer tent , shading her eyes . |
| 24 | He looked across at the Woman , so that she could share his smile , but she did not smile . |
| 25 | He stopped his horse and looked across at the friar . |
| 26 | Tom stopped at the corner where the shop stood and looked across at the Fire Station . |
| 27 | They looked across at the railway station . |
| 28 | She left the tow-path where it bore left round the sweep of the river which looked across to the Cathedral 's east end and peddled along the road . |
| 29 | He looked across to the lighthouse and saw nothing — only waves , and more waves . |
| 30 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |