Example sentences of "it across [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Jotan picked up one and ignited it across a striker embedded in the stonework .
2 Build a raft and then get it across a lake ?
3 Depends what the what the a , I mean if you 've got an ammeter set to milliamps and you stuck it across a battery
4 Drawing it across a lump of unscored pork
5 Several issues arise from this premise : ( 1 ) Teachers must use diagnostic records as pupils come to them , be it across a phase or year on year .
6 Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across
7 Suppose you shoot a marble and try to get it across a hump in the ground .
8 Paul picked it up and smoothed it , laying it across a chair .
9 Folding it up carefully , he laid it across a chair .
10 He pushed it across the desk .
11 Swansborough closed the file with a snap and pushed it across the desk .
12 He tore out the lined sheet and passed it across the desk .
13 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 .
14 An empty , broken corpse , it had walked past Tallis , stepping through the fire ; above the trees the wraith was twined about the ghostly image of the man , dragging it across the canopy , even though it struggled for flight back to the woodland camp .
15 In order to excavate the site itself , a new road had been built and a viaduct constructed to carry it across the valley before it climbed through the wooded hillside to the rocky crag chosen for the location of the church which formed the heart of the project .
16 The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed .
17 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 .
18 She picked a saucepan off the cooker and raised it high , as if she might fling it across the kitchen like a hatchet .
19 The girl got a good grip on the hatch , and pulled it away , tossing it across the square like a dustbin lid .
20 It let in sunlight from late morning till late evening , casting it across the square of a table in the middle of the room .
21 ‘ Now the chief priest is going to say a prayer for the boats on the beach , ’ he explained , as they went with other spectators to join in behind the end of the procession and follow it across the square and on to the sand .
22 In 1978 the preferred option for the " Company system " was to take the Bristol system ( PARIS II ) and apply it across the parent company .
23 Ahn snaps it across the man 's wrist — breaking the bone , I think .
24 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 .
25 Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence .
26 And then he did it again in 1944 , that time from east to west , the first man to make it across the top of Canada in both directions .
27 He lost interest after that , his plan overshadowed by the oil tanker Manhattan making it across the top of America .
28 He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet .
29 Using a knife , I carefully opened it across the top and slipped the letter out .
30 The gang manhandled the 18-foot caravan through the gap in the fence and began pushing it across the field towards the road .
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