Example sentences of "thrown [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis Skinner , savage critic of Labour leaders , standard bearer of the Left , the old darling of the constituency parties , was thrown off the National Executive . |
| 2 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
| 3 | In Derry , newly-elected SDLP councillor Jim Clifford said today his daughter was lucky to be alive after a brick was thrown through the front window of the family home . |
| 4 | Belfast Sinn Fein councillor Joe Austin was with his brother-in-law and four children when a grenade was thrown through the front bedroom window of his home in Falls Road . |
| 5 | The USSR had been one of the first governments to recognise the state of Israel in 1948 , but Soviet support was thereafter thrown behind the Arab cause and behind the Egyptian war effort in particular . |
| 6 | They are thrown into the dark hold of a ship … ’ |
| 7 | The couple were on a white water rafting expedition , like this one , when Steve was thrown into the fast-moving river and drowned . |
| 8 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 9 | The king or chieftain would make the offering on behalf of his people and they were thrown into the sacred lake or pool with appropriate ritual ceremony . |
| 10 | Newton grabbed a late equaliser after being thrown into the forward line , adding to the double strike he notched in similar circumstances earlier this month . |
| 11 | A twisting thrust of the hip , thrown into the forward movement of the body , adds to the power of the attack . |
| 12 | Both bodies were thrown into the shark-infested sea and many wounds could have been caused following the women 's deaths . |
| 13 | Thomas Thompson was hit by a VW Golf on the A167 in North Yorkshire and was thrown into the opposite carriageway where another car drove over him . |
| 14 | The Moslem brothers were arrested 10 weeks ago and thrown into the notorious Omarska concentration camp where they were split up . |
| 15 | Major Hewitt is one of a group of young Army officers thrown into the royal circle through their service with the Household Cavalry . |
| 16 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 17 | Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later . |
| 18 | Rave kids should be throwing petrol bombs at the Houses Of Parliament over the way their right to party has been thrown in the proverbial dumper , but they are n't . |
| 19 | However , what they found was that the peak was at around 2.3 MeV in the normal mode ( current flowing away from the detector ) and 2.6 MeV in the reverse case ( current flowing towards the detector ) -like the object thrown from the moving vehicle against or with the motion . |
| 20 | The Margaretha occupies an excellent yet quiet position , about a 10 minute walk from the village centre , and a mere stones thrown from the beautiful lake . |
| 21 | There she had been rudely thrown upon the hard ground and had been forced to defend herself . |
| 22 | The ball is kicked or thrown to the highlighted player either after a few seconds or when the fire button is pressed with the joystick i neutral . |
| 23 | One would be if- I will not say the Labour Party but the extreme Labour Party — were to get so powerful that it would be a menace and we should have thrown on the other scale all that was moderate in the Liberal Party as well as our own Party . |
| 24 | Light can be thrown on the administrative efficiency of this Commissariat ( Narkomzem ) by looking into the account of an inspection of it in early 1922 . |
| 25 | Conceptually , it is hoped that some light will be thrown on the whole question of disciplinary boundaries or subjects ; these are the bricks out of which the whole educational edifice is constructed and yet we know little about them and there are those who doubt their very existence . |
| 26 | It was as though a white cloak had been thrown over the entire countryside , a cloak which gleamed beneath an enormous ghostly-white moon , robbing the night of its darkness . |
| 27 | Rugs in jewel shades of emerald and topaz were thrown over the terracotta-tiled floor and the curtains , like the sofa and armchair covers , she had sewn from a heavy cream fabric . |
| 28 | At one point , to suppress attacks , a large handkerchief was thrown over the stuffed cuckoo , but the enraged birds ( in this case , nightingales ) would not give up and assaulted the handkerchief instead . |
| 29 | While the lull in the firing persisted , the Magistrate ordered earth to be thrown over the rotting mountain of offal in order to cover it like the crust of a pie . |
| 30 | Waddell says a blanket was thrown over the old man and several times the old man knocked it off and it had to be replaced . |