Example sentences of "fling [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Therapy ? feel they need their own ‘ Teen Spirit ’ icon to fling into the fray , t hen here it is with both barrels blazing . |
| 2 | Outside the boutiques were still aglow with heaps of motley flung about the feet of the disdainful assistants . |
| 3 | Many passengers suffered broken bones or concussion as they were flung through the car . |
| 4 | The children 's room is below mine and I can see clothes strung from the ceiling , shoes flung beneath the bed , blankets cast aside . |
| 5 | Far flung throughout the county as it were . |
| 6 | She was swung round forcefully , so that her breath gasped from her body , then with equal force she was flung against the door . |
| 7 | Where the rocks exposed in the cliffs are incoherent , pressures produced by the waves may be of less importance and much of the erosion accomplished by the load flung against the cliffs and by the simple swilling action of the waves , which removes the finer matrix from gravel beds . |
| 8 | Boulders flung against the cliff by the waves are much more likely to knock off projecting corners and become themselves rounded in the process than to dislodge rock masses . |
| 9 | One bottle had been flung against the wall where it had exploded in shards of glass and a bloody , dribbling splash . |
| 10 | A moment later he felt himself picked up and flung against the wall . |
| 11 | Behind her the door crashed open , flung against the wall with a force that rattled the windows and sent the candles flickering wildly . |
| 12 | But the hand-woven wicker baskets used to carry oranges , lotus root , carrots and green celery from the countryside are dismantled in the market place , usually to be flung into the river . |
| 13 | There 's little dawdling to sniff flowers now , just giddy , breakneck pop ; ‘ In Love For The Very First Time ’ is gushing and gossipy , while ‘ Be Your Baby ’ is '60s girl group sentiment wised up and flung into the backroom of the Camden Falcon . |
| 14 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 15 | They were flung into the air as the car smashed through a concrete wall before coming to rest on its side in a garden at Darlaston , West Midlands . |
| 16 | Sharon , 30 , screamed hysterically , ‘ My baby , my baby ’ , as she saw the girls flung into the air . |
| 17 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 18 | Rameau , like so many others , was flung into the enemy 's face to bolster our courage and our faith in the national destiny of France . ’ |
| 19 | Tallis gasped as she saw the bones of men and horses piled by the river and flung into the branches , grim remnants of those who had not won the day . |
| 20 | Helen could even remember the occasion ; the shutter jamming , her mother 's fit of temper , the thing flung into the dustbin . |
| 21 | Many were kicked and beaten by eight or more stewards before being flung into the street : ‘ In nearly every case they were bleeding from the head and face and their clothing was badly torn … . ’ |
| 22 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 23 | The journey with him had been tense , the atmosphere between them like standing on the edge of a volcano , waiting to be flung into the fire when it exploded . |
| 24 | It had been used more recently as well , during the Darul Islam revolutionary uprisings of the 1960s , when the bodies of execution victims were flung into the cave . |
| 25 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 26 | After the second escape attempt they were beaten again and flung into the blackness of stone-floored isolation cells in the nearby fort at An Dap . |
| 27 | Galileo was less successful in explaining why loose objects are not flung from the surface of a spinning earth . |
| 28 | The 16-year-old passenger was flung from the vehicle head first into a metal fence . |
| 29 | If the earth spins , why are such objects not flung from the earth 's surface , as stones would be flung from the rim of a rotating wheel ? |
| 30 | Perhaps a dustbin had tumbled over or another tile been flung from the roof . |