Example sentences of "throw himself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | But as I turned to go downstairs , my landlord , thinking he was alone , threw himself on the bed , pushed open the window and called into the darkness . |
| 3 | Gerard threw himself on the floor . |
| 4 | Richard threw himself on the floor screaming ! |
| 5 | Satisfied that the room is empty , he enters quickly , closes the door behind him emphatically , and throws himself on the settee with a groan of weariness . |
| 6 | He could , he supposed , have thrown himself on the mercy of his father and stepmother , but the very idea was abhorrent to him . |
| 7 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 8 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |