Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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1 | I should hit him across the back of the neck like a rabbit . |
2 | They 'll throw you across the room |
3 | One of these days you 'll lead me across the road . |
4 | She picked a saucepan off the cooker and raised it high , as if she might fling it across the kitchen like a hatchet . |
5 | I 'd say , nothing , we 've just been up there , and he 'd smack us across the chops with the er gloves , and say , go on , and do n't let me see you here again . |
6 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
7 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
8 | One man in particular er again I wo n't mention his name but anybody that went to Road School 'll know who I , I mean when I say that if you did anything wrong he 'd call you out and ask you something and if you , if you like pupils used to be a bit shy and , and not speak to him he 'd slap you across the face . |
9 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
10 | Well I think well , you know when we used to leave ours across the , the lawn there ? |
11 | Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border . |
12 | A man was unfurling a sail on one of the feluccas , and we ran along the bank and asked him if he would take us across the river . |
13 | ‘ This heavy-duty polythene should do the trick if I can wedge it across the gaps . ’ |
14 | In this instance you can put it across the eyebrow , right , across the eyebrow , ask them to hold it and if you 're doing a bandage like this the way to keep it on is to have one part of the bandage going above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear right , go above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear okay and then finally just tie it off , get the idea ? |