Example sentences of "throw herself [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany .
2 Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry .
3 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 .
4 As he lunged for her she threw herself out of the way and looked desperately for a way out .
5 Her voice ended in a shrill scream , as she threw herself back on the table and flung open her legs .
6 She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows .
7 She threw herself down on the sofa , and slept .
8 She threw herself down on the bed and started crying wildly .
9 When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart .
10 She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks .
11 She peeled off her wrap , threw herself down on the bunk and gloomily contemplated the future .
12 ‘ Some charm , ’ she muttered as she threw herself down on the bed .
13 Bathsheba walked up and down , crying and whispering to herself , then threw herself down by the road , exhausted .
14 Both of them were wary , but at least Hayley did n't throw herself out of the window .
15 Hayley 's real father had turned up , demanding to take her home with him , and there were tears and tantrums from Hayley , who declared , as she frequently did , that she 'd throw herself out of the window .
16 After Brunnhilde throws herself on to the pyre Valhalla comes to an end , to be replaced by a new era of human love .
17 Next moment Perdita , streaking down the field , had thrown herself out of the saddle and clinging with her left hand round Hermia 's damp hot neck , hooked Randy as the final bell tolled for South Sussex .
18 But she had already felt the tremor of unstable ground beneath her feet and , throwing herself back from the danger zone , she was in time to prevent herself falling into the stream .
19 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 .
20 When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery .
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