Example sentences of "[noun] thrown over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was exactly as she 'd left it — shoes in the middle of the floor , the overall she wore for doing the bedrooms thrown over the back of the chair . |
| 2 | He surrounds himself with a considered disarray of natural objects ; piles of logs for the open fire , wooden rustic chairs , a chinese screen and antique rugs thrown over the parquet floor . |
| 3 | He was staring at the overcoat thrown over the rail . |
| 4 | The Moderator laid on the table a letter dated 4th July which he had received from Mr Sutherland and which having , been read was by unanimous order of the Session thrown over the table . |
| 5 | Mr Hurkett , who was with the couple 's eldest daughter Emma , seven , saw his wife thrown over the car roof . |
| 6 | Working in the studio , you had to have buckets of water thrown over the actors to give the impression of being at sea ! |
| 7 | The netting thrown over the tree in the background is obviously intended to trap these newcomers as they arrive to mob the owl . |
| 8 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 9 | German federalism is merely a cloak thrown over the relatively strong regionalism Which persists in Germany , and it was a system adopted by Germany , with the Allies ' approval , after the war as a way of preventing a return of totalitarianism , which is why the Germans associate federalism with the opposite of centralised power . |
| 10 | She waited for a while , then she undressed and climbed into bed , the coat thrown over the top to add extra warmth . |
| 11 | He was aware of the room 's clutter , the central wooden table still covered with the remains of their midday meal , an assortment of plates smeared with tomato sauce , a half-eaten sausage , a large bottle of orangeade uncapped ; the children 's clothes thrown over the back of a low nursing chair before the fireplace , of the smell of milk and bodies and wood smoke . |
| 12 | I knew that the altar was only an old chest freezer with a sheet thrown over the top … but … there could be something inside it . |
| 13 | The shroud thrown over the subordination of women in the mining communities has much to tell us about the myth of the " archetypical proletarians ' . |
| 14 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |