1.   Doyle was flung back across the table, a milk bottle exploding in the bag he held across his chest.

2.   The global comparisons concentrate their efforts on the regularities that hold across a large sample.

3.   I took the envelope out of the left-hand saddle-bag and held it across my chest.

4.   The projection can be held across a strip of behavior that is less long than a grammatical sentence...

5.   As their eyes met and held across the coffee-table, Ronni felt a sudden sharp frisson go through her.

6.   And Lillian Thomason of Canton, Ga., played with her young granddaughter, Maria Allison, holding hands across the blue stripe.

7.   As Cuomo held news conferences across upstate New York devoted to the subject of education, he was criticized for his comments.

8.   Auditions are held across the state.

9.   Auto auctions are held across the country, but throughout the used-car business, this small Pennsylvania town is the place to be on Fridays.

10.   Benny grabs a Plain Dealer somebody left on the next table and holds it across his stomach while he pretends to be reading the latest NASDAQ quotes.