Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] throw [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 2 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 3 | They had stalled him for long enough , but with a baby coming , he could n't wait any longer and then when Rachel told them she had to get married , she was thrown out of the house . |
| 4 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 5 | These days the king goes out of his way to remind listeners that he is the senior representative of the Hashemites , ‘ the noblest family in Islam ’ and the traditional guardians of Mecca and Medina until they were thrown out by the al-Saud family in 1925 . |
| 6 | In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise . |
| 7 | It was thrown up after the war to house the car workers . |
| 8 | ‘ Presumably it was thrown out by the murderer , ’ said Amiss . |
| 9 | Then he was thrown back across the table , sprawling beneath the lights like an unwilling patient . |
| 10 | Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable . |
| 11 | Frankie 's wrath knew no bounds and after sub-jecting his weeping mother to a tirade of the most vile obscenities he was thrown out of the office by a disgusted recruiting sergeant . |
| 12 | He was thrown about in the back of the car and the driver was having a Chinese attack of the wobblies made worse by bouts of dizziness and sickness due to the height at which they were travelling . |