Example sentences of "throw it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waves lifted the Forfarshire and threw it onto the rock , like a child playing with a toy . |
| 2 | He snatched the cloak out of my hand and threw it on the bed . |
| 3 | tell us about breathing , no you 're not getting my voice on that thing he says , I , I do n't like hearing me voice and everything , and he threw it on the settee . |
| 4 | On one occasion he called a player into his office , took his hat from the hat-stand and threw it on the floor . |
| 5 | I threw it on the floor . |
| 6 | The couple laughed as Natalie chewed the medal , then threw it on the floor . |
| 7 | She removed the veil , tore it in two and threw it on the floor . ’ |
| 8 | He screwed up the paper and threw it on the kitchen table . |
| 9 | I screwed up my results paper and threw it on the Pavement beside someone 's half-eaten chips on the corner . |
| 10 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
| 11 | My master picked it up , scrutinised it carefully then threw it on the table . |
| 12 | Then he pulled the mask off his face and threw it on the ground . |
| 13 | He withdrew it and threw it on the ground . |
| 14 | Then Nour turned and saw us , and he leapt from his chair and took a cup of coffee ready-poured and threw it at the cat , who was near my foot , so that my foot was covered in coffee and the cat fled . |
| 15 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 16 | Stein came along , smelt the drink , refused to listen to Rough 's explanation , picked up the glass and threw it at the keeper and marched off . |
| 17 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |
| 18 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 19 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 20 | He tore it off and threw it at the wastepaper basket . |
| 21 | Harold threw it to the floor , leant back and closed his eyes . |
| 22 | Lovernius was very pleased and asked for a bag of gold and threw it to the poet who ran beside his chariot . |
| 23 | Moses ' staff changed into a snake when Aaron threw it to the ground before Pharaoh . |
| 24 | I pulled off my shirt and threw it beyond the woodpile . |
| 25 | She snatched the food down , threw it across the river shore , but on second thoughts rescued the precious meat and tied it to the slim horse that was now her steed . |
| 26 | Helping her out of the dress , she threw it across the bed . |
| 27 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 28 | Then , she picked up a half-brick and threw it through the drugstore window . |
| 29 | Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house . |
| 30 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |