Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For suddenly Georg 's control had snapped and he pushed her hard , violently and savagely away from him so that she spun across the room , hurtled into the table , and nearly fell . |
| 3 | Meredith supposed Harriet would be fully committed socially over the Christmas period but she wanted to offer some token of hospitality , so she went across the road after breakfast and asked if Harriet would like to come over to lunch . |
| 4 | It was not until she came across a book by Sylvia Crowe , who pointed out how often the English countryside is spoilt by gardens blazing in colour which intrude on the natural backdrop , that she realised her mistake . |
| 5 | Just as he was saying all this , while he and she went across the hall , Jasper appeared , running lightly down the stairs . |
| 6 | and she went across the road for something and while she was across the road Mrs came and was talking to that man . |
| 7 | Her wet feet burned on the hot stones at the edge and she walked across the grass to the shade where he stood jubilant , beckoning . |
| 8 | I must have moaned : she looked at me coldly as if suspecting some kind of trickery , and then her face altered and she came across the room to take my arm and help me back to bed . |
| 9 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 10 | The can rolled sideways down the hill and she scrabbled across the tent for it . |
| 11 | Maura 's eyes lit up and she skipped across the road to meet him . |
| 12 | Paul had been placed next to her , and when she looked across the table she caught Nicholas ' eye with its suggestion of complicity . |
| 13 | You will , I am quite sure , agree with me totally when I say , our beautiful , delectable , Annabelle is irreplaceable , and we shall miss her dreadfully , when she departs across the skies to the beautiful tropical paradise which she will enhance immeasurably … |
| 14 | ‘ Goodness , ’ she heard Caldecott say as she walked across the lawn towards her car . |
| 15 | Little muscles twitched beneath Anthea 's shoulder blades as she walked across the hall towards the lecture room . |
| 16 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 17 | Smells like thunder , she thought , as she walked across the tarmac . |
| 18 | She spoke slowly while controlling her eagerness to spring to her feet , and as she walked across the room beside Silas one of the rafting party gave a low whistle which was obviously directed at her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was a lovely warm evening , and as she drifted across the drawing-room she felt a sudden impulse to play some music . |
| 21 | A cardboard box banged her knees as she blew across the road to where an old lady was hopping on the spot and poking at a plastic bag on her foot . |
| 22 | " I 'm sure it will be , " Patrick said , smiling his thanks as she passed across the cup and saucer . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Calm down , an inner voice cautioned , as she stalked across the room to sit exhaustedly on a striped upholstered stool by a mirrored dressing-table . |
| 25 | Her skirt swirled around her legs in a froth of black lace as she stalked across the room . |
| 26 | ‘ Three degrees over , ’ she said , as if quoting , languid of voice as she stared across the hearthrug at him , one hand up to her bosom , as if protectively . |
| 27 | She walked over to the rail and leant her forearms on it as she stared across the river , and drew in a shuddery little breath , hating the fact that Luke could make her so aware of him with just a look . |
| 28 | No — she did n't want to be locked away to die , yet as she rushed across the square she escaped death by inches from a dog-cart without noticing it , the magnet that was Christie Goldsborough drawing her in a straight line , through brick walls if need be , to get at him . |
| 29 | A huge sob caught in her throat as she rushed across the room to slam the door after him . |
| 30 | As she cycled across the Pariser Platz on the Eastern side , her shrieks of joy echoed in the huge Doric columns of the Brandenburg Gate . |