Example sentences of "throw himself at " 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 | Nathan , who had emerged from the room behind , took in the situation at a glance and , with a blood-curdling scream , threw himself at Lennon . |
| 4 | First a mix-up in the West Ham defence gave him a clear sight of goal , but Ludek Miklosko threw himself at Smillie 's feet to save . |
| 5 | He threw himself at me and I jumped to one side , leaving him to fall on the deck . |
| 6 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 7 | The swiftly reacting keeper bravely threw himself at McCarthy 's feet after Mitch Cook was brushed aside by the forward , and caused a measure of concern as he hobbled around after lengthy treatment . |
| 8 | And at this , Scruffy threw himself at Nutmeg , + scratched his nose . |
| 9 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 10 | And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain . |
| 11 | He throws himself at her feet in mock subjection . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the doctor was also in the room and the brave little man had thrown himself at Detchard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | out armour , throwing himself at the enemy , and the ignorant sympathisers remonstrated with him . |
| 16 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 17 | Recovering from his surprise , Duvall was ready to throw himself at Jimmy . |