Example sentences of "i across " in BNC.

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1 I across the to get some and ended on my bollocks .
2 ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’
3 She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’
4 A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt .
5 Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border .
6 But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones .
7 A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush .
8 I remember one day she slapped me across the jaw .
9 The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope .
10 When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire .
11 He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit .
12 If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Another time , Alan Slab , who later served a life sentence for murder , chased me across the common in the dark for being cheeky .
16 He seemed full of beans though , and after he had given me a rundown on the life cycle of the polyp , three nurses wheeled me across the corridor and into another room .
17 I am a 39-year-old man weighing 11 stone and I was trying to cuddle my nine year old when she picked me up and threw me across the room .
18 Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’
19 Carrie me across the threshold , darling !
20 ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist .
21 Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves .
22 He took me across the lake in a boat to his house .
23 Suddenly I saw two huge rats run towards me across the bed .
24 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 . ’
25 Light was coming from Duke Michael 's window opposite me across the moat , and I could see into the room .
26 He looked at me across the room .
27 He turned to look at me across the studio .
28 He ought to have slapped me across the face .
29 " No , John , they 'll come up through the front , " said Fielding , his arm on my shoulder now as he steered me across the floor .
30 So he , he slapped me across the face .
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