Example sentences of "[conj] threw [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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1 | Shots slammed into the walls inside the courtyard where the civilians cried and threw themselves on the ground . |
2 | On one occasion when he had failed to produce an essay for the third week running , Betjeman wandered sheepishly into Lewis 's room and threw himself on his knees by the hearth . |
3 | He came and threw himself on our bed , shaking all over . |
4 | He broke free of the lieutenant and threw himself on top of me . |
5 | She raced upstairs to her apartment and threw herself on the bedcover , a Welsh patchwork quilt in a soft pattern of cream and pink . |
6 | She went into another room and threw herself on a bed . |
7 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |