Sentence examples similar to lorry ride from inspiring English sources

Recent intelligence estimates as much as three-quarters of illegal immigration is in the hands of organised crime (indeed immigration officers in Calais told me anyone trying to jump a lorry-ride to England needs the say-so of one of the local gangs).

When the migrants attempted to hitch a ride, the lorry stopped, so as not to endanger their lives.

The family of a French student killed by a lorry while she was riding a "Boris bike" broke down as graphic CCTV footage of the collision was shown to her inquest.

I walked to a highway entrance ramp near my flat and soon got a ride with a lorry driver headed for Lincolnshire.

It has since moved north, with two sightings in Scotland, possible with the spiders having hitched a ride on a lorry.

Others, riding in a lorry, were ambushed on a Bangkok highway by government supporters who threw stones and poles.

Landing in Kos was not the end of the family's nightmare – they also suffered a 24-hour "horror ride" in a sealed lorry from Athens to Berlin.

But these are immigrants who have been screened and carefully selected not those so desperate to escape torture and misery that they scrape together every cent they can for a ride in a cramped lorry or a leaky boat, a journey that often ends in death.The numbers of smuggled refugees reaching Australia have been trivial compared with those who enter Britain and Germany.

The image of someone getting sweaty-palmed over a balustrade, a wall, a fairground ride or an articulated lorry is ludicrous, laughable.

He eventually agreed to drive a lorry.

Each one tells the interviewer that he spent £2,000 for a six-day ride in the back of a lorry to escape Serb repression in Kosovo.