Suppose the person sitting across the table had been a man.

Major Anderson looked at the boy sitting across the table from him.

The man came back and sat across the table from me.

I looked at Joyce sitting across the table trying to read my mind.

How hard it had been to sit across the table from her.

The two sat across the table from each other in the darkness, saying nothing.

Jack pulled up a chair and sat across the table from her.

He pulled out a chair and sat across the table from Rose.

She made fresh coffee and, without a word, sat across the table.

She glanced back at the man sitting across the table.