Example sentences of "and throw themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again they turned their backs on the God who had brought them out of Egypt , and threw themselves into the arms of another . |
| 2 | Half running , half walking , they fled through the back garden , narrowly missing the Anderson , and threw themselves into the passage-way , the leaves swirling in after them . |
| 3 | Shots slammed into the walls inside the courtyard where the civilians cried and threw themselves on the ground . |
| 4 | I chase each of the monks and nuns round the canopy until all have been similarly consumed and thrown themselves over the battlements ; for who can bear to lose face ? |
| 5 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 6 | Some men tire of the journey and throw themselves to the sea . |