Example sentences of "throw [pn reflx] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any moment and with no warning he 'll throw himself on to the floor and do like a hundred push-ups . |
| 2 | Pulling off his black leather jacket and kicking off his shoes , he threw himself on to a bed . |
| 3 | Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her ! |
| 4 | Larry gave up and left the room and threw himself on to an armchair in the living-room . |
| 5 | Corbett threw himself on to a bench beside the wall . |
| 6 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 7 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 8 | But the corridor remained silent , and with a sob of despair she threw herself on to the bed and cried till her store of tears was used up . |
| 9 | I stood up , yawned and stretched , and threw myself on to a nearby sofa . |
| 10 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 11 | After Brunnhilde throws herself on to the pyre Valhalla comes to an end , to be replaced by a new era of human love . |
| 12 | He heard later that a suicide had thrown himself on to the line . |
| 13 | Before Folly could take in what was happening , Luke had crossed the room in a few strides and almost thrown himself on to the sofa . |
| 14 | As the London Underground becomes more dishevelled and unpredictable , so the number of suicides who throw themselves on to the track seems to increase . |
| 15 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 16 | A silence fell on the room , and its increasing heaviness made her heave herself up from the couch and take the three steps to throw herself on to the seat beside him ; and to put an arm around his shoulder and say , ‘ Come on , lad , come on . |