Example sentences of "throw over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel her mother s irritation rise to balance the calmness that her grandmother threw over the fight . |
| 2 | Whatever the reason , the gloom which her defeat threw over the racing scene was genuine . |
| 3 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 4 | We establish order and think we are in control ; then Nu throws over the table and breaks what we have taken a lifetime to construct . |
| 5 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 6 | Thus when the girl secretary who was to become Dostoevsky 's wife rang the bell of his flat for the first time , the door was opened by an elderly woman servant with a green shawl thrown over her shoulders . |
| 7 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 8 | She made the headlines by having a glass of wine thrown over her at the plushy Caprice restaurant in London . |
| 9 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 10 | Mr Hurkett , who was with the couple 's eldest daughter Emma , seven , saw his wife thrown over the car roof . |
| 11 | A rope had been thrown over a low beam in the room and tied to the top of the Bookman 's cage . |
| 12 | German federalism is merely a cloak thrown over the relatively strong regionalism Which persists in Germany , and it was a system adopted by Germany , with the Allies ' approval , after the war as a way of preventing a return of totalitarianism , which is why the Germans associate federalism with the opposite of centralised power . |
| 13 | Beer had been thrown over a local and Slatter was obviously to blame . |
| 14 | I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes , and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth . |
| 15 | In extreme winds ( Force 6+ ) you have to keep very low to avoid being thrown over the front . |
| 16 | If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way . |
| 17 | As the other four offered their own inimitable advice , the police hustled the Celtic defender downstairs and out into the streets where he was thrown over the bonnet of a police car . |
| 18 | The netting thrown over the tree in the background is obviously intended to trap these newcomers as they arrive to mob the owl . |
| 19 | At one point , to suppress attacks , a large handkerchief was thrown over the stuffed cuckoo , but the enraged birds ( in this case , nightingales ) would not give up and assaulted the handkerchief instead . |
| 20 | Children are likely to play ball against your side wall and you may find yourself picking litter out of the garden which has been thrown over your wall or fence . |
| 21 | It was too large for her and the wide sleeves of limp cotton hung from her freckled arms like rags thrown over a stick . |
| 22 | He was aware of the room 's clutter , the central wooden table still covered with the remains of their midday meal , an assortment of plates smeared with tomato sauce , a half-eaten sausage , a large bottle of orangeade uncapped ; the children 's clothes thrown over the back of a low nursing chair before the fireplace , of the smell of milk and bodies and wood smoke . |
| 23 | Here , too , a certain ‘ colouring of the imagination ’ is thrown over an incident on Wordsworth 's journey home ; but is this enough to explain the strange story and the even more mysterious ‘ Part Second ’ ? |
| 24 | Mrs Carson , Alas in a bunk with a blanket thrown over her , was clearly relieved to see Ruth . |
| 25 | Just before it began to get light , Liza Carrow , carrying a torch and with an old coat thrown over her nightdress , crept out of Four Winds and walked towards the cliff . |
| 26 | We joined the crowd before our handiwork was noticed and watched as Mary and Albert had more confetti thrown over them as they stood on the threshold of the church . |
| 27 | Waddell says a blanket was thrown over the old man and several times the old man knocked it off and it had to be replaced . |
| 28 | She was in a dinner dress , with a coat thrown over it . |
| 29 | The formal gesture , chivalrous and yet intimidating , was like a bucket of cold water thrown over Constance 's confidence . |
| 30 | ‘ And it could just as easily be the shepherd lying still with an old sheepskin thrown over him . |