Example sentences of "throws [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 2 | A painter whose pictures record the atrocities of the past , he acts as his uncle 's conscience and it is partly due to him that Singer — at the height of his spivvy , flashy success - throws himself into a Hampstead pond . |
| 3 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 4 | He throws himself entirely on the divine generosity of which he has already had such rich experience . |
| 5 | Some of these are used to bring about an ‘ altered state of consciousness ’ in which reality can be perceived in different ways , not unlike our chaos magician who throws himself into his ‘ void ’ . |
| 6 | He throws himself without a word onto the blanket beside him . |
| 7 | Caledor throws himself into the sea rather than be captured . |
| 8 | And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain . |
| 9 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 10 | [ Suddenly BELVILLE throws himself on PAMELA . |
| 11 | He throws himself at her feet in mock subjection . |
| 12 | ‘ He is small of stature and , like a small fellow who throws himself around on the rugby field , he brings out his natural aggression through falling off things and doing stunts . |
| 13 | It 's an admission that a 42-year-old who throws himself around manically shouting , ’ Go on kid , give it some of that ’ should n't be taken that seriously . |
| 14 | Satisfied that the room is empty , he enters quickly , closes the door behind him emphatically , and throws himself on the settee with a groan of weariness . |
| 15 | Anyway he is 24 , is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit . |
| 16 | Eventually , driven to despair , he throws himself under a train . |
| 17 | He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net . |
| 18 | ‘ YO , this is Dalek exercises , mon ! ’ booms Derrick Evans , his skin-tight leotard stretching in impossible directions as he throws himself around the GMTV studio . |
| 19 | The fire-bellied toad , when alarmed , suddenly throws itself on its back , so exposing its underside which blazes with a yellow and black pattern , a colour combination which is widely recognised in the animal world as a warning . |
| 20 | After Brunnhilde throws herself on to the pyre Valhalla comes to an end , to be replaced by a new era of human love . |
| 21 | She begins to scream and , running to the edge of the battlements , throws herself into the precipice . |
| 22 | Kate throws herself into her delusion that her son will come back ; Joe heartily espouses being realistic and burying the dead . |
| 23 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 24 | Nobody throws themselves through the air without my permission , ’ muttered the Headmaster turning to Endill . |