Example sentences of "thrown himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could , he supposed , have thrown himself on the mercy of his father and stepmother , but the very idea was abhorrent to him . |
| 2 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 3 | Jack , who had thrown himself across them both and had died in her arms , an hour later , without speaking a word . |
| 4 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 5 | But the doctor was also in the room and the brave little man had thrown himself at Detchard . |
| 6 | 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 . |