Example sentences of "being throw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bloody clashes would occur whenever armoured units raided these villages , storming through makeshift defensive road blocks and responding to rocks being thrown with live bullets and tear gas ; but no sooner would these army units be gone than authority would revert to the village residents . |
| 2 | What I need is a couple of hours ’ peace and quiet and I 'll be fine for the presentation tomorrow — besides , ’ she added persuasively , ‘ it 's not as if the party was being thrown for us . |
| 3 | On similar lines the NOPWC reported in 1963 that some nineteen employment agencies were being run by old people 's welfare committees ‘ to give older workers the opportunity to continue working beyond retirement age , ’ and prevent them ‘ being thrown on a human scrap heap where their physical and mental health suffered and some became prematurely incapable of leading independent lives ’ ( NOPWC 1963 : 4 ) . |
| 4 | They start their young lives by being thrown on the scrap heap at 16 , 17 or 18 . |
| 5 | Nepomuk was martyred by being thrown off Charles Bridge under the orders of Wenceslas IV . |
| 6 | You know you get asphyxiated with petrol fumes and then you get the danger of being thrown off your bike . |
| 7 | One moment , I 'm being thrown off the premises . |
| 8 | Accountants are losing their businesses , old people are losing their pensions , families are losing their homes and farmers are being thrown off their land . |
| 9 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 10 | As this sounds vaguely similar to some of the insults being thrown at Ryan 's side , all hope is not lost . |
| 11 | On the subject of using the past , making references , it 's just that it 's impossible to evade the past , it 's here , it 's being thrown at you , and you have to deal with it . |
| 12 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 13 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 14 | Each workstation on the network can be set up to decide whether it will accept work being thrown at it , and tells the central manager what resources ( memory size , architecture and so forth ) that it has available for running jobs . |
| 15 | The violence that is being thrown at teenagers , and which they appear to love , may seem less palatable . |
| 16 | Er my reservations about the figures the Liberal Democrats put in , I think they will however , I think it is erm , the idea , I do get the idea that money is being thrown at the problem . |
| 17 | this year I 'll quickly run through one or two of the er various aspects of er Mr commented on money being thrown at the problem . |
| 18 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 19 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |
| 20 | Underlying these themes was the belief that the problems of the British system were being thrown into stark relief by the endless economic difficulties of the 1970s . |
| 21 | According to delegation sources , Mr Li said that Beijing was fortunate to have had the foresight to crack down on its democracy movement in June , preventing China from being thrown into the ‘ turmoil and confusion ’ now prevailing in Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | According to delegation sources , Mr Li said that Beijing was fortunate to have had the foresight to crack down on its democracy movement in June , preventing China from being thrown into the ‘ turmoil and confusion ’ now prevailing in Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | SHe realised with a dreadful clench of the stomach that SHe was a morsel of raw flesh being thrown into a blood-spiced pool of hungry sharks . |
| 24 | It was being thrown into the presence of older people who thought we were bright enough to appreciate M. R. James at 11 , act in Shakespeare at 12 , sing Handel and Haydn at 13 . |
| 25 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 26 | On one occasion , as Glynn held the King 's Court in Liskeard , a mob assaulted him and he was ‘ … greviously wounded in the face ’ before being thrown into Liskeard prison . |
| 27 | All that wealth , those discs of gold and silver , the pearls secreted by the oyster , the hardened coal that men call diamonds — they are indeed worthy of being thrown into the waters . ' ’ |
| 28 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 29 | She was stripped naked and beaten with a cattle prod before being thrown into a cell full of excrement . |
| 30 | Newton grabbed a late equaliser after being thrown into the forward line , adding to the double strike he notched in similar circumstances earlier this month . |