Example sentences of "to throw [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To throw ourselves into those turbulent waters and then be unable to regain the punt would have put paid to any hope of rescuing Dennis . |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 3 | To throw ourselves on Paris . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 5 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 6 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 7 | It was then that the nobleman managed to throw himself over his confessor in a heroic attempt to protect him . |
| 8 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 9 | Recovering from his surprise , Duvall was ready to throw himself at Jimmy . |
| 10 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 11 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 12 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 13 | But he hurled himself out , across the corridor to his own room , to throw himself on his bed in rage and self-disgust . |
| 14 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 15 | ‘ Because he looked about ready to throw himself under a car . ’ |
| 16 | But , as an exile friend says , threatening to throw himself in Chihana 's footsteps , ‘ It seems the only way the media will be interested is if something happens to someone else . ’ |
| 17 | So was examiner Silk going to throw himself in front of the roller for the statutory emergency stop ? |
| 18 | In fiscal 1992 , the drain on finances was development costs for the Sparcbook , exacerbated by a fall in demand for the board-level products : these were sufficiently severe that the company had to raise £572,000 in March in another rights issue after having to throw itself onto the mercy of its bankers and creditors in order to continue trading . |
| 19 | This animal 's reaction to certain sequences of notes was to throw itself into uncontrollable convulsions . |
| 20 | Suffragette Emily Davidson , who was to throw herself under the King 's horse at the Derby in 1913 , hid there during the census of 1911 , to protest for Women 's Rights . |
| 21 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 22 | The urge to throw herself on the tormentingly broad shoulder was too humiliating , and instead she stiffened with fresh anger and resentment towards him . |
| 23 | There was fighting in the gangways and a young girl beat the bouncers to throw herself at his feet . |
| 24 | Stunned but ineffectual , she yelled in righteous rage and tried to pull herself to her feet , wanting nothing else but to throw herself at Duvall as … |
| 25 | He was Dr Neil , and she wanted to throw herself at him , and would have done so three months ago , but he , and Vetch Street , and Effie and Rose , and everything , had changed her . |
| 26 | She had no urge whatever to throw herself at Mitch . |
| 27 | There was something in his voice that made her want to throw herself into his arms ; but then she knew that Aggie would n't like that . |
| 28 | She felt strangely restless , wanting to throw herself into every small task that awaited her throughout the house . |
| 29 | She saw Penry 's eyes on the silver brooch on her shoulder , knew he was remembering their time together on the island , and for a moment she was tempted to throw herself into his arms , to assure him that nothing mattered as long as he loved her , Leonora Fox , not Melanie . |
| 30 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |