Example sentences of "threw [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 2 | He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit . |
| 3 | I thought the hand-cranking on the ‘ 109 a bit dodgy , till an impatient Navy pilot threw me off the wing of a Harvard into the prop , miraculously only tearing my jacket and grazing my arm , putting me in dock for a couple of days . |
| 4 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 5 | when old come home and he just , the old wifey broke the eggs into the pan and threw them onto the plate for |
| 6 | Disgusted with their treatment , the two players tore off their shirts and threw them to the ground in full view of the royal box . |
| 7 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 8 | Will somebody tell me : if the Chicago-based Harmony company mass-produced ten million guitars since 1945 ( as they claim ) , were the guitars so bad that people threw them in the bin like you did with my last letter and lovely photograph ? |
| 9 | And what would you have done if Schemichal got hold of you and threw you off the pitch like last night ? |
| 10 | He dived headlong as he reached the top , but Burun stepped out of the way , caught his son 's sash at the back as he passed , swung him round and threw him into the wreckage of the bed again . |
| 11 | He dreamt that Lucie threw him from the parapet of a bridge into deep water , with a stone statue of Garvey tied round his neck . |
| 12 | I screwed up my results paper and threw it on the Pavement beside someone 's half-eaten chips on the corner . |
| 13 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 14 | Moses ' staff changed into a snake when Aaron threw it to the ground before Pharaoh . |
| 15 | Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house . |
| 16 | Alida hauled up the eiderdown from the floor , threw it over the width of the bed , And I , she thought bitterly , I am not young , not a girl , to bend and stoop and struggle with making and tidying this great bed . |
| 17 | She leant forward now and picked up a log of wood and threw it into the centre of the glowing ashes . |
| 18 | He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room . |
| 19 | ‘ Watch ! ’ he insisted , and picking up a fallen bough , threw it into the midst of this dark greenness . |
| 20 | He watched in awe as she wrenched off her smart hat and threw it into the carriage with her gloves . |
| 21 | ‘ I choked the dirty thing , ’ said Nour , ‘ and threw it in the street for the dogs . ’ |