Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After making it across the ramp once , unable to see where the hell he was going , he slammed like a sack of spuds . |
| 2 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 3 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 4 | But just as the removal of trees from the lowlands has created considerable opposition from environmentalists so has the policy of planting them across the hillsides . |
| 5 | She felt like throwing it across the room but managed to control herself . |
| 6 | The actual work can be a bit fiddly — sometimes an arrangement just wo n't go right and I have to restrain myself from hurling it across the room . |
| 7 | Finally they were outside , and Luke took her hand , kissing her quickly before urging her across the road to the car park and into his car . |
| 8 | The islands had always been a smugglers ' paradise , and had proved a perfect place to stockpile cocaine before running it across the narrow Straits of Florida to the waiting American markets . |
| 9 | He tried to stop it but succeeded only in propelling it across the line . |
| 10 | A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops . |
| 11 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 12 | To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule . |