Example sentences of "threw [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 At 6.45 the taxi returned and Sally , my dresser , threw me into the dress .
2 so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’
3 He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit .
4 I am a 39-year-old man weighing 11 stone and I was trying to cuddle my nine year old when she picked me up and threw me across the room .
5 He threw me across the front seat , and the choir applauded — whether this was for my benefit or to register approval for Quigley 's strong right arm was not clear .
6 I thought the hand-cranking on the ‘ 109 a bit dodgy , till an impatient Navy pilot threw me off the wing of a Harvard into the prop , miraculously only tearing my jacket and grazing my arm , putting me in dock for a couple of days .
7 Bus conductor , , tickets please , tick what 's a matter , mate ? well you know and the man threw me off the train and listen , he goes come on gov , give me the letter I 'll read it .
8 the man threw me off the bus and he goes all right then , let me read it .
9 He virtually threw me on the delivery bed and the midwife yanked down my trousers — and there was the baby , with his head and a hand out , gazing at us .
10 That threw me for a minute .
11 I had to admit to myself that that threw me for the minute .
12 ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw .
13 He threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick .
14 Felix threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick .
15 Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons .
16 He did n't , he picked me up and threw me against the van and ran off .
17 They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then .
18 ‘ He threw me in a dungeon . ’
19 Men and women carried their own children on their shoulders to the church and threw them into a common pit .
20 She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect .
21 He rattled them between cupped hands and threw them into the dust .
22 Pearl Jam trashed their guitars and threw them into the audience .
23 When he reached the table , he wrenched the flowers form their display and threw them into the rows of assembled journalists .
24 I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’
25 Without another word , he picked up her bags and disdainfully threw them into the boot .
26 In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged .
27 He pulled out the bottom drawer , grabbed all the leaflets from the estate agents , all the newspaper cuttings of houses for sale , and threw them on the floor .
28 Then they dragged them to the edge of the platform and threw them on the track .
29 She now stripped the partition of the clothes , threw them on the bed , and then went and lifted the lid off the case , only to find that it , too , was full of clothes , both the woman 's and the child 's .
30 Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage .
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