Example sentences of "throw back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he was thrown back across the table , sprawling beneath the lights like an unwilling patient . |
| 2 | I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again . |
| 3 | The living turtle is then thrown back into the water , in the mistaken belief that it will re-grow its shell . |
| 4 | I hate angling just because the fish does n't scream it does n't mean the hook did n't hurt when it was inserted and then taken out when the fish is thrown back into the water because it is n't big enough . |
| 5 | Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there . |
| 6 | I remember her , head thrown back in the middle of some joke she was making , and that sudden glint of gold , like treasure in a cave . |
| 7 | Only to be thrown back by the magic of the fire in the tree , the tree spirit , herself , flickering through time , watching , watching for the clay-haired rider . |