Example sentences of "thrown [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
| 2 | In Derry , newly-elected SDLP councillor Jim Clifford said today his daughter was lucky to be alive after a brick was thrown through the front window of the family home . |
| 3 | They are thrown into the dark hold of a ship … ’ |
| 4 | A twisting thrust of the hip , thrown into the forward movement of the body , adds to the power of the attack . |
| 5 | Major Hewitt is one of a group of young Army officers thrown into the royal circle through their service with the Household Cavalry . |
| 6 | However , what they found was that the peak was at around 2.3 MeV in the normal mode ( current flowing away from the detector ) and 2.6 MeV in the reverse case ( current flowing towards the detector ) -like the object thrown from the moving vehicle against or with the motion . |
| 7 | Light can be thrown on the administrative efficiency of this Commissariat ( Narkomzem ) by looking into the account of an inspection of it in early 1922 . |
| 8 | Conceptually , it is hoped that some light will be thrown on the whole question of disciplinary boundaries or subjects ; these are the bricks out of which the whole educational edifice is constructed and yet we know little about them and there are those who doubt their very existence . |
| 9 | While the lull in the firing persisted , the Magistrate ordered earth to be thrown over the rotting mountain of offal in order to cover it like the crust of a pie . |
| 10 | It began with the statement : ‘ Perhaps the favourite accusation thrown at the National Front by its multi-racialist critics is that we are simply a bunch of bigots , that our stance on Race , the very heart and core of our political being , is no more than ignorant prejudice against Coloured people ’ ( Vanguard , April 1987 ) . |
| 11 | As the nozzle gradually closes in , its shadow , thrown by the bare bulb behind me , creeps across the chimney towards the spider . |
| 12 | She frowned , thrown by the apparent change of tack . |
| 13 | She blinked , thrown by the sudden change of subject . |