Example sentences of "thrown [adv] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her coat was thrown down on to the couch , to be followed by the long mud-fringed skirt and tattered voluminous blouse , there appeared before the child a fat woman , a very fat woman , in what seemed to be a clean blue-striped blouse and a long grey skirt with a fringe . |
| 2 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 3 | The notion that patients are being thrown out on to the street is not borne out , ’ he said . |
| 4 | That , given the potential for trouble when hundreds of disgruntled drinkers are thrown out on to the street at the same time , was surely the prudent tactic . |
| 5 | There was still a handful of people down there , identifiable only for brief seconds as they flitted through the pools of light thrown out on to the pavement from cafés and shops . |
| 6 | As I drove further down the road there were computers thrown out on to the pavement and whole window frames completely blown out into the street . |
| 7 | YOU FAT BASTAD ! ’ as a stage diver is thrown back on to the stage and Carl , who has removed his glasses in a rare moment of vanity , gets out of the way by blundering blindly into the snare drum . |
| 8 | Standing there with his upturned collar and downturned straw hat , from which wisps of smoke still issued , he looked like a garden gnome that somebody had thrown accidentally on to the barbecue . |