Example sentences of "throw [pron] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , my girl , you 're lucky Dr Penry Meredith Vaughan did n't throw you back in the sea . ’ |
| 2 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 3 | No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter . |
| 4 | BILLIONAIRE Ross Perot last night threw himself back into the race to become US President . |
| 5 | Her voice ended in a shrill scream , as she threw herself back on the table and flung open her legs . |
| 6 | She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows . |
| 7 | She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask . |
| 8 | Burun caught the outstretched arm , whipped Orcadai round , and threw him back down the stairs . |
| 9 | Yet for a short time his arrival at Oxford threw him back on the hunkers of his class and family . |
| 10 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 11 | A tube burst and the blow back threw him back against the tender end . |
| 12 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 13 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 14 | On the bank , the trumpet twittered again , and the water became full of spray and hurtling bodies as shoremen left their attack and threw themselves back on the sand . |
| 15 | I threw myself back on the bed with a laugh . |
| 16 | I threw myself back through the door , falling to the ground . |
| 17 | But that throws you back to the problem . |
| 18 | Any second now it would break and throw him back into the river . |
| 19 | She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) . |
| 20 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 21 | But she had already felt the tremor of unstable ground beneath her feet and , throwing herself back from the danger zone , she was in time to prevent herself falling into the stream . |
| 22 | There were certain crescendos when a particularly macho spectator would sweep a Bisu off his feet and kiss him furiously before roughly throwing him back into the circle again . |
| 23 | ‘ For fuck 's sake , and I do n't care who the hell he is — release him , throw him back on the streets and do n't touch him again . |
| 24 | Erm you know people know the answers questions or they 've got an idea material of your own experience you know a lot more than they do , but it 's good technique to throw it back to the group . |
| 25 | The minority parties , including the Liberal Democrats , would have to decide whether to support a Queen 's Speech based on consensus politics ‘ or whether to throw us back into the melting pot of a general election ’ . |