Example sentences of "throw at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
2 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
3 | There was good deal of heckling and questions thrown at him about the nature of democracy , free speech and freedom of the press . |
4 | Usually when a well-deserving photographer has a punch thrown at him by a celebrity , nobody bats an eyelid — unless the fist belongs to Sean Penn — indeed everybody used to expect Sinatra to take a swing . |
5 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
6 | The England vice-captain afterwards jokingly wore a bandage around his head as England treated the latest missile thrown at them by an Indian crowd as an isolated incident . |
7 | The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct . |
8 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
9 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
10 | We have values of 80 per cent thrown at us for a fish which , when feeding on natural food , ingests about 80 per cent water and around 7 per cent protein ! |
11 | Boxing clever : Chris Eubank ( left ) copes with all that challenger , Lindell Holmes , can throw at him during a successful WBO title defence at Olympia |