Example sentences of "of [noun] thrown [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Jewish atmosphere is the main memory from the film , along with Melanie Griffith 's character development , and a bit of action thrown in . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bending double , he ducked beneath the window and was moving towards the door … when a long man-shaped shadow moved across the bar of light thrown out onto the paved pathway . |
| 4 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 5 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 6 | Well , Derbyshire with a bit of Yorkshire thrown in . |
| 7 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |
| 8 | Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in . |
| 9 | You want a good time , do n't you — with the flesh-pots of Egypt thrown in ! |
| 10 | If that were not enough , there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of people thrown out of their homes because they could not afford their mortgage repayments . |
| 11 | No allowance had been made for the physical difficulty of getting heavy guns over a battlefield where all roads had been obliterated and every inch of ground thrown up into huge mounds and craters by the attackers ' own bombardment . |
| 12 | He was a handsome chap in a sinister sort of way , Al Caponish with a dash of Dracula and a smidgen of Rambo thrown in , but he spoils himself being so nasty . |
| 13 | The whole thing had been influenced by Himmler 's obsession with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table , with a liberal dose of occultism thrown in . |
| 14 | This is very much a ‘ people ’ story and concentrates on the day-to-day happenings in The Mob , with a fair amount of humour thrown in for good measure . |
| 15 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 16 | He claimed at the Tory Conference , in a phrase that he must by now be sick of hearing thrown back at him , that he would intervene before breakfast , lunch and dinner . |
| 17 | He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion . |
| 18 | ( You must come up to Toad Hall , it 's a jacobean residence with a bit of Tudor thrown in . |
| 19 | Also profiting from the New Europe , with a sprinkling of gardening thrown in for good measure , is Weidenfeld and Nicolson with J.M. Dent 's Germany : Architecture , Interiors , Landscape , Gardens by Christa von Richthofen with photographs by Oliver Benn ( £30 ) . |
| 20 | Images of women thrown down , kicked and beaten , men held and knocked senseless by Blackshirt stewards , filled the press in the days and weeks that followed . |
| 21 | Surprising amount of heat thrown out . |
| 22 | But , Sasha says , ‘ it 's really a mixture of English country furniture and Swedish , with a bit of Beidermier thrown in ’ |