Example sentences of "throw [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Sally 's dying wish that he should throw himself into his role as country copper Inspector Reg Wexford — and that he has done with a vengeance . |
| 2 | By day Hayling would help organize the workers at Langley , and in the evenings he would throw himself into pressure-group work . |
| 3 | He knew he deserved nothing and so he decided to go home and throw himself on his father 's mercy . |
| 4 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 5 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 6 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 7 | The patient keeps his hands clasped together throughout the active parts of the transfer , so that he does not throw himself off balance by reaching out to grab the carer or the arm of the chair . |
| 8 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 9 | ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign . |
| 10 | We threw ourselves against the door , and as the lock broke we went in . |
| 11 | Like Lucifer falling out of Heaven , he threw himself off the back of the pageant , not caring that the paving stones lay three leagues below . |
| 12 | He almost threw himself across the van , grasping Kirov firmly by both shoulders . |
| 13 | He threw himself across the passenger seat , still holding the handset which was on the open line to his control at Selby and shouted ‘ ten nine , ten nine , ten nine ’ — the police equivalent of SOS requesting immediate help . |
| 14 | He leapt off a regular bus — the excellent airport service seems currently in abeyance , threw himself through the doors and yelled at me to hurry , which I did , and we caught the same bus back into town . |
| 15 | Owen threw himself over the wall and dropped down . |
| 16 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 17 | He threw himself into the exercises with a hind of despairing frenzy . |
| 18 | The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him . |
| 19 | He made a dash for the big front door and threw himself into the gloomy chill of the hall . |
| 20 | Tammuz threw himself into a chair and put his feet up on the edge of his workstation . |
| 21 | Edward was given the contract and threw himself into it with vigour , aided no doubt by his life-long abhorrence of the building which he was now about to replace . |
| 22 | Winton duly threw himself into the muddled affairs of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia , a group of diverse personalities whose good intentions far outstretched their capacity to offer constructive help . |
| 23 | Having secured his freedom , his sexual appetite continued unabated and he threw himself into an even more vigorous life of carnal debauchery . |
| 24 | No longer ‘ Mr Madonna ’ , he threw himself into filming Judgement in Berlin and Casualties of War . |
| 25 | Immediately he threw himself into the organization of a monster Albert Hall rally to welcome the Revolution . |
| 26 | He threw himself into the making of ITV series Travelling Man and was rewarded with huge success in the ratings . |
| 27 | Unhampered by a client 's needs , he threw himself into a legitimate extension of his pipe dream : the Dolls ' House became his home . |
| 28 | The experience convinced him that Europe was on the brink of revolution , and he threw himself into revolutionary Anarchist ‘ Situationism ’ , which rejected conventional left-wing political parties . |
| 29 | Walsh , with Hayling fronting the show to add that important touch of Cambridge class , threw himself into raising the matching funding required by GLEB . |
| 30 | He worked very hard , even in the holidays : he threw himself into all the activities of the school and contributed a number of well-received papers to conferences on education . |