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Hi, this is Melissa Faulkner coming to you from Durham, North Carolina.
Today we're going to talk about three phrasal verbs: pull over, come
across and run into. Now, all three of these phrasal verbs are pretty
different in their meanings and how you would use them in a sentence.
So, we’ll talk about all three of them and their meanings and how to use
them in a sentence. Now, for this video for each phrasal verb I'm going to
give you three sentences and then give you an explanation of how that
phrasal verb is used in the sentence. So, let's go ahead and get started
with our first phrasal verb: pull over.

Now, pull over has a couple of different meanings and uses, the first
main meaning that we would use is if you were driving in a car and you
were going to pull over the car. That means you would be moving the car
to the side of the road. Either to get to safety or to stop driving for some
particular reason or to turn, but you're pulling the car over, you're
moving the car over to the side of the road in a safe way. The second way
that we would use pull over is for is for a jacket or a coat, something that
you would actually pull over your head. So, if you need something for a
warmer weather you would take a jacket and it's called a pull over
because you are literally pulling it over your head. So, let's take a look at
the sentences for pull over. Sentence number one:

As the rain poured down even harder Jacob decided to pull over into
the gas station and wait until it subsided.

So in this situation you can imagine, Jacob is driving down the road,
maybe on the highway, it's raining really hard now, it's pouring down rain
so maybe you can imagine he's having difficulty looking through his
windshield. He wants to get somewhere a little bit safer. So he decides to
pull over his car or move his car over into a gas station, and he's going to

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wait for to rain to pass by. He wants to stay in safety for a little bit at the
gas station. So, he pulls his car over into the gas station in order to be
safe. Let's take a look at sentence number two:

When Hannah saw the flashlights behind her, she knew the cop was
pulling her over for running that last red light.

So, Hannah is running down the road, maybe she's not paying attention
or maybe she's going too fast, but she runs the red light. So, after she
runs the red light she sees the police lights behind her flashing, she
knows the cop is going to pull her over. That means that he wants her to
pull the car over to the side of the road, probably so that he can give her
a ticket. He's going to give her a ticket for the red light she ran behind
her. So, in this case he wants her to pull over to the side of the road so
he can do that. And oftentimes when we are talking about police or cops,
we would say that they're going to pull you over and that means that
they're generally going to ask you to move to the side and give you a
ticket.

Let's move on to sentence number three:

As the wind started to pick up Mr. Robertson put on his pull over.

So in this case the weather is changing, the wind is starting to pick up the
wind is getting a little bit colder, Mr. Robertson wants to put on a pull
over. He's going to put on a jacket, he's going to pull over his head.
Either a sweater or a zip up or something that he would literally have to
pull over his head. We would normally do that, like I said, when the
weather changes, when it gets a little bit colder. You're literally pulling
the jacket over your head. So, Mr. Robertson is literally putting on a pull
over.

Let's move on to our next phrasal verb: come across. Now, come across
also has a couple of different meanings. The first meaning to come
across would mean that you found something unexpectedly. You didn’t

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mean to find that thing, but you either found it by chance or by surprise,
you came across something, you found something that you didn’t intend
to find. That second ways that we would use come across is the
impression that you're giving. So, either by your behavior or your actions,
you give a certain impression. Maybe if you laugh and smile a lot, people
find you to be very friendly, you come across as being friendly. So, let's
talk about these two ways that you would use come across in a sentence.
Sentence number one: While at the library yesterday I came across an
interesting book about computer engineering that I thought you
might like.

So, in this case, someone is at the library, maybe they have another
errand that they have to do, they need to drop off the book or go to a
meeting, but they came across a book about computer engineering. They
didn’t mean to find this book or intend to find the book but they came
across it by chance, and they thought the other person might like the
book. So, in this case they didn't intend to find it, but they came across it
unexpectedly. Let's take a look at sentence number two:

Tom came across an article in the newspaper that he thought would

be good to share with the class because their recent conversations
about politics.

Now, in this case Tom is reading through the newspaper, maybe he's just
reading general articles or he's looking for the sports pages, but he's not
looking for anything in particular, but he comes across this article. He
unexpectedly finds this article that just happens to do with the same
conversations they were having about politics in his class. So, when he
found this article, when he came across this article, he decided to cut it
out, share with the class. He came across that he didn't intend to find,
but he found it unexpectedly and it ended up being something good for
the conversation for his class. He came across the article. Let’s take a
look at sentence number three:

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Jake didn’t smile or laugh once during his interview, so he came

across as stiff or unfriendly.

Now, in this situation we’re talking about the impression that he gives
because of his behavior. Jake’s behavior was sort of unfriendly he didn’t
smile he didn’t laugh. So, he came across, he gave the impression that
he’s unfriendly or stiff. Oftentimes when you give a specific behavior,
that helps to give an impression, or helps people to see how you come
across. So, if he was to be very friendly and smile or laugh a lot, people
would probably have the impression that he’s very friendly. He would
come across as a friendly person. Let’s take a look at our third phrasal
verb.

Let’s take a look at our third phrasal verb: run into. Now, run into has a
couple of different meanings also. The first meaning for run into means
that you bump or crash into someone either by accident or on purpose.
Another type of run into could be that you run into challenges, or you
come across a problem or an issue on something. Normally if you say
you’re running into something, you’re running into a challenge, you’re
running into a problem. The third way that we would say run into is you
meet up with someone unexpectedly. So, if you run into someone
unexpectedly, you didn’t mean to see them or to meet up with them, but
you unexpectedly ran into them, normally a good thing. Let’s take a look
at our sentences. Sentence number one:

Because she wasn’t watching where she was going, Katie ran into a
child on the busy sidewalk and dropped three coffees she had just
purchased.

Now, in this case Katie has just purchased three coffees, she’s walking
with them in her hands, maybe she’s trying to get somewhere to a
meeting really quickly and she’s not watching where she’s going the
sidewalk is really busy, she runs into a child and knocks all her coffees

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down. So, she crashes into the child or bumps into the child. She didn’t
mean to, but because she wasn’t watching and she was going quickly,
she ran into the child and dropped all of her coffees. So, in this case we
would say that she run into the child or bumped into the child. Sentence
number two:

When they were building the new aircraft, they ran into some
challenges with the weight of the aluminum and the size of the wings.

Now in this case run into means to run into a problem or to run into an
issue. You’re sort of coming across an issue that you didn’t mean to find.
So, in this case they’re building a new aircraft, they ran into some
problems or some challenges while they were building the aircraft that
had to do with the metal weight and the size of the wings. So they’re
going to have to fix these problems that they have now run into or kind
of come across. Sentence number three:

When he went to the concert, Sammy ran into so many old friends
that he had known in college.

So, in this case Sammy is meeting up with people unexpectedly. He’s

going to a concert. He thought maybe he was just going to be there by
himself, but he ran into some old college friends at the concert, he didn’t
intend to run into them but he came across them or met up with them
unexpectedly. It was a positive thing for him to run into these friends
that he didn’t think he was going to be able to see. So, in all three of
these phrasal verbs, pull over, come across and run into, we have
different meanings. I hope these explanations have helped you to
understand how to use these phrasal verbs in sentences, and I hope to
talk to you soon for some more phrasal verbs. Thanks.

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