Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] it across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The tornado picked up their mobile home and dumped it across the street . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , they 'll have to , ’ said Nicholson pulling the necktie from his shirt and flinging it across the back of a chair . |
| 4 | At last he sat back , tousled and infuriated , crumpled the cheque and hurled it across the room . |
| 5 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 10 | He folded the paper and tossed it across the table to eagerly awaiting hands . |
| 11 | I uncrease the paper and open it across the table as if to read . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He took a square of white card from his pocket and flicked it across the table . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 17 | He tore out the lined sheet and passed it across the desk . |
| 18 | Elinor did not pick up the pan and hurl it across the room . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure this stuffing 's off , ’ said Grace , and she impaled a lump on her fork and thrust it across the cloth for John Harbour to sniff at . |
| 20 | a ) Disconnect the ribber carriage from the connecting arm and pass it across the ribber bed ( all the ribber stitches drop off ) . |
| 21 | She reached into her holdall , pulled out a large buff envelope and slid it across the table . |