Example sentences of "thrown [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rather , it was a way of coping with some of the contradictions thrown up by the rise of Fordism . |
| 32 | Instead of the great undulations of disturbed earth thrown up by the Worm , he saw a filled-in trench with fresh turf covering the rawness . |
| 33 | It is difficult to see how any of the dramatic problems of the modern world thrown up by the exhaustion of Fordism — can be solved unless there is some sort of co-operation among major and lesser powers and some sort of political involvement of those groups and movements that articulate concern about these global problems . |
| 34 | A liquidator of the best men thrown up by the Revolution , a torturer , a racialist on a Hitlerian scale , a defeatist when war was going badly , and a mind of insatiable vanity and paranoid suspicion was exposed . |
| 35 | A KEY ELEMENT in the rich mix of cricket 's attractions is the wealth of quirk and oddity thrown up by the game . |
| 36 | He opened the front door and stood for a moment on the step looking at the glimmer of light touching the pale dome of the church and the glow of the city thrown up against the sky . |
| 37 | The law of averages , if I have got this right , means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their |
| 38 | The performance took the audience from gasps of fear as dancers were thrown up in the air , to laughter as a roller skating bear entertained . |
| 39 | I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street |
| 40 | Those assurances had been demolished by the revelations thrown up in the collapse of the Matrix Churchill trial , said Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown . |
| 41 | As was typical of nineteenth and early twentieth century food retailing , foods were on open display on shop counters , in open windows and on the stalls outside , where food was exposed to the dirt and dust thrown up from the street . |
| 42 | I turned round and watched her hoist him on to her hip and harangue with her fist in the air , until the sight of her was dissolved by the dust thrown up behind the car . |
| 43 | It was thrown up after the war to house the car workers . |
| 44 | Intuitively , one might claim that the need for completeness which is satisfied when are angry is added to residents in ( 2 ) is of the same order as that experienced when waiting for , say , the splash of a stone thrown out over the sea , or for the arrival of food in one 's mouth when one has watched it being prepared . |
| 45 | He was as trembly and thrown out as the foal . |
| 46 | Even the ACE name may be thrown out with the dishwater in this latest development — too many bad memories ? — ‘ but you can be sure that there will be a deuce ! ’ one insider told Unigram last week . |
| 47 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 48 | This is not the same as ‘ force-feeding ’ doctrine ; one can sympathise with Jayne Greenwell 's reservations , but we should be careful what gets thrown out with the bathwater . |
| 49 | They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . |
| 50 | In the process everything distinctively Christian was eliminated : the baby was thrown out with the bath water . |
| 51 | You know I mean you er er it 's al I , I think the same would happen if you put a five note in inside it would get thrown out with the rubbish but erm the thing is that obviously some , some early day , if one can say in inverted commas early day publicity erm from the Northumberland side of things could a and I mean my view when , when Ros was telling me what happened at the last meeting erm was that was gon na be acting as an icebreaker as opposed waiting till the last minute somebody 's gon na and they think erm as it were , a and build up from , from that because there 's obviously gon na be one or two other things coming directly from national level . |
| 52 | It 's most likely it will involve the TV being thrown out of the window and possibly followed by the wife . |
| 53 | But I think that sex can be a fleeting thing and sometimes I believe that if it is that alone as the basis of a relationship , then all the finer and better qualities are thrown out of the window . |
| 54 | A week that had seen all her safe , conventional standards thrown out of the window , and irretrievably altered her life . |
| 55 | ‘ If the pound note and the lira were thrown out of the window tomorrow and replaced by the ECU that would be fantastic . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ I said it was terrible , to ruin one of Lehar 's most wonderful love songs like that , and Ingrid , he made it quite plain that if I did n't fall in with Therese 's wishes — exactly — I would be thrown out of the company . ’ |
| 57 | And I know that 's what she 's planning to do — get me thrown out of the company that I 've helped to build , taken a reduced salary . |
| 58 | We were kicked and shouted at and then thrown out of the vehicle . |
| 59 | Do n't get thrown out of the Institute for forgetting to pay your subs , which were due on 1 January . |
| 60 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |