Example sentences of "[vb past] it across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 2 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 3 | He directed them to the Fish , took over the chaise from them before they entered the village , drove it across the meadow to the edge of Burtness Wood , calling , on his way , to the potboy to bring some oats . |
| 4 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 5 | Haavikko handed it across the table . |
| 6 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 7 | Helping her out of the dress , she threw it across the bed . |
| 8 | She snatched the food down , threw it across the river shore , but on second thoughts rescued the precious meat and tied it to the slim horse that was now her steed . |
| 9 | Using a knife , I carefully opened it across the top and slipped the letter out . |
| 10 | So when the great lady detective drew a hair from her head and stuck it across the lock on the front door of Sir Vivien 's motor car , Constable Quince said nothing . |
| 11 | Robert picked up a large cellophane bag , and , with a resentful glance in her direction , pulled it across the polished floor . |
| 12 | It pulled it across the floor , manipulated the leg under a couple of strands of wire , and heaved . |
| 13 | The tornado picked up their mobile home and dumped it across the street . |
| 14 | With bungees holding the tiller arm , he heaved the heavy BMW inboard on the davits and manhandled it across the cockpit and into the saloon , lashing it to the mast support . |
| 15 | Unlashing the motor cycle , he manhandled it across the saloon and into the cockpit . |
| 16 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 17 | With his right hand Quinn twisted a blob of the brown substance off , rolled it into a ball and tossed it across the floor to Zack . |
| 18 | He folded the paper and tossed it across the table to eagerly awaiting hands . |
| 19 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 20 | He poured wine and brought it across the room to Owen 's chair , pressing him back brusquely when he would have risen to receive the cup . |
| 21 | He jumped sideways in sudden fright as Sweetheart snatched up a brown paper carrier-bag with looped string handles and flung it across the room . |
| 22 | Then , suddenly , he picked it up and flung it across the room . |
| 23 | And this , ’ he pulled Lazlo 's map from his pocket and flung it across the table , ‘ The great detective left this behind when he and Rex fled from his office last night . |
| 24 | as if from nowhere Henry , too , appeared and , crouching in the corner of the couch , Emma now watched him struggling with her mother , and when he wrenched the poker from her hand and flung it across the room , there was the sound of splintering wood , which brought about an inevitable silence , punctuated only by gasps . |
| 25 | With a lunge , he grabbed the bag from between her fingers and flung it across the parquet , where it landed with a thump before skidding to rest beneath a radiator , then before she could react to such a flare of violence he was reaching out for her , dragging her into his embrace , his lips ravening hungrily over her own with a fever of desire that sent shock waves of fear and desire quivering through her . |
| 26 | He tore out the lined sheet and passed it across the desk . |
| 27 | His car barely made it across the finish line , spluttering and choking , before the fuel supply dried up . |
| 28 | Then she took the willow twig , laid it across the bull 's withers and secured it in place with a rope tied firmly beneath the soft folds of flesh on the underside of the neck . |
| 29 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 30 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |