Example sentences of "throw himself at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 3 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 4 | He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net . |
| 5 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 6 | out armour , throwing himself at the enemy , and the ignorant sympathisers remonstrated with him . |
| 7 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |