Example sentences of "thrown [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | parenthood , for example yo before the capabilities of reproductive technology became available nobody sat down and questioned whether we had a right to have children or not , whether it was a responsibility , a right or whatever , I mean it 's it 's very ironic that we 've actually thrown ourselves into a realm where we have to consider all these fundamental things about human behaviour and human nature |
| 2 | In this example , the opponent has thrown himself forwards , with no thought of a face guard |
| 3 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 4 | He could , he supposed , have thrown himself on the mercy of his father and stepmother , but the very idea was abhorrent to him . |
| 5 | He heard later that a suicide had thrown himself on to the line . |
| 6 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 7 | But the doctor was also in the room and the brave little man had thrown himself at Detchard . |
| 8 | Jack , who had thrown himself across them both and had died in her arms , an hour later , without speaking a word . |
| 9 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They saw his body in the moat , where he had thrown himself to escape the mob . |
| 12 | A party that had thrown itself so uncompromisingly into the campaign against Home Rule , and which had long ago accepted the need for " organization " in domestic affairs , could hardly accept for long the leadership by ineffective compromise which was what Asquith offered . |
| 13 | What other nation has thrown itself so wishfully into war ? |
| 14 | She had quite literally thrown herself at him , she had bitten him in the neck so hard that he had bled , she had scratched his face and torn his clothes . |
| 15 | She took two pills from a bottle by the bed on which she had thrown herself and crushed them between the pages of Mansfield Park . |
| 16 | Amy had thrown herself into the social round , while Catherine had begun a career in journalism . |
| 17 | ‘ A woman had thrown herself from Waterloo Bridge , he told me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If her grandfather 's grave had been open she would have thrown herself in . |
| 20 | Before her father answered she had thrown herself into her mother 's arms . |
| 21 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 22 | She had thrown herself into his arms and hugged him as if she were still a schoolgirl . |
| 23 | Butler had also thrown herself into similar work in Liverpool in the 1860s , setting up an industrial home for working-class girls . |
| 24 | It was typical of everything Louise was that she should have thrown herself away on that dreadful Randall . |
| 25 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 26 | Because she was only doing it to protect herself , to hide the real truth — which was that she 'd have given anything to simply thrown herself into his arms . |
| 27 | She 'd thrown herself at him , of course . |
| 28 | To banish the visions , Theda had thrown herself into work — work that would at least welcome Benedict home again to a house of warmth and light . |
| 29 | She 'd thrown herself into it with gritted teeth , recklessly taking on more than she could handle . |
| 30 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |