Example sentences of "throws [pn reflx] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He throws himself at her feet in mock subjection . |
| 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 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |