Example sentences of "she throw [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 2 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 3 | She danced on , oblivious , then he must have said something , and she danced seductively , fluidly , to the edge of the roof , hips moving slow , a big smile on her face as she looked down at Lewis , then she threw herself off the roof . |
| 4 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 5 | Emily Davison died when she threw herself under the King 's horse during the 1913 Derby . |
| 6 | Yeats watched , with an appalled fascination , as she threw herself into ‘ a joyous and self-forgetting condition of political hate ’ . |
| 7 | She threw herself into his arms , sighing deeply when he half-heartedly returned her embrace . |
| 8 | In the shop , in the dimness , she threw herself into Nick 's arms and kissed him . |
| 9 | She threw herself into the literary and social life of Cambridge . |
| 10 | She threw herself into his arms at every opportunity , and like a gentleman he kissed her back . |
| 11 | Needing no further urging , she threw herself into his arms and he carried her upstairs . |
| 12 | With a sigh , rather than a cry , she threw herself into the water and felt peace . |
| 13 | She threw herself into her work harder than ever , doing anything that was asked of her , from pinning hems to sweeping the design-room floor to helping the showroom models with their make-up , and all the while she counted the days until she could leave this city and go back to New York , where she belonged . |
| 14 | On one occasion she threw herself against a glass display cabinet at Kensington Palace while on another she slashed at her wrists with a razor blade . |