Example sentences of "thrown [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing in the Platz in her elegant coat and furs Erika was on the verge of tears : first the books were thrown on to the flames and then , in a terrible and inevitable sequence , human beings were put into the incinerators . |
| 2 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 3 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 4 | But those on the list who actually applied , as opposed to expressing vague interest , had no way of knowing whether their completed application forms had been weeded out or simply thrown on to the paper mountain along with everyone else . |
| 5 | This position means that a shadow is inevitably thrown on to the working surface . |
| 6 | There was a constant hissing when Zoecke was serving and coins were thrown on to the court . |
| 7 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 8 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 9 | From now on applying any more brake really can spell disaster , for the normal mortal at least , because much of the weight is still thrown on to the front tyre and grip is scarce . |
| 10 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 11 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 12 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 13 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 14 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 15 | The body thrown on to the ambulance . |
| 16 | Closer to the smoking fire , Blake could see that the colours of the flames varied with the different amounts of crushed rocks thrown on to the pyre . |
| 17 | The full burden of long-run equilibriation is thrown on to the slender base of the real balance effect . |
| 18 | The Falkirk teenager had seen a shopping trolley being thrown on to the line from a bridge and knew that a passenger train was only minutes away . |
| 19 | They did and I was dragged out and thrown on to the grass . |
| 20 | Some things do n't change : the ritual screams ; the garments and flowers thrown on to the stage ; and the suggestiveness . |
| 21 | Kharif could be thrown in for the Arpal Chase at Kelso ( 1.40 ) . |
| 22 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 23 | Churchill 's early books , treasured by earlier custodians of the Party 's heritage , were thrown in with the rest . |
| 24 | Liberals had argued for a wider franchise for years and Unionists had demanded a redistribution , so both sides got something of what they wanted and proportional representation was thrown in with the present mood of Labour in mind , so that the anti-socialist parties would be able to consolidate their position if necessary . |
| 25 | He really is thrown in on the form of Jokester was out of the handicap when an excellent runner-up that day , and now races off a stone lower mark . |
| 26 | Lottie was thrown in at the deep end : |
| 27 | THREE Ipswich Witches youngsters will be thrown in at the deep end on Thursday when Foxhall Stadium stages the Star of Anglia on the opening day of the 1993 speedway season . |
| 28 | I was thus , unceremoniously ‘ thrown in at the deep end ’ . |
| 29 | When kicked directly into touch from a penalty kick , the ball will be thrown in at the lineout by the team which kicked the ball into touch . |
| 30 | She was immediately thrown in at the deep end when one of her young clients , Lucy Gates , died . |