Example sentences of "thrown [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 2 | Closer to the smoking fire , Blake could see that the colours of the flames varied with the different amounts of crushed rocks thrown on to the pyre . |
| 3 | There was a constant hissing when Zoecke was serving and coins were thrown on to the court . |
| 4 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 5 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 6 | This position means that a shadow is inevitably thrown on to the working surface . |
| 7 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 8 | The Falkirk teenager had seen a shopping trolley being thrown on to the line from a bridge and knew that a passenger train was only minutes away . |
| 9 | They did and I was dragged out and thrown on to the grass . |
| 10 | The body thrown on to the ambulance . |
| 11 | Some things do n't change : the ritual screams ; the garments and flowers thrown on to the stage ; and the suggestiveness . |
| 12 | But those on the list who actually applied , as opposed to expressing vague interest , had no way of knowing whether their completed application forms had been weeded out or simply thrown on to the paper mountain along with everyone else . |
| 13 | Churchill 's early books , treasured by earlier custodians of the Party 's heritage , were thrown in with the rest . |
| 14 | He really is thrown in on the form of Jokester was out of the handicap when an excellent runner-up that day , and now races off a stone lower mark . |
| 15 | When kicked directly into touch from a penalty kick , the ball will be thrown in at the lineout by the team which kicked the ball into touch . |
| 16 | Ash privies were an improvement , as they were built above ground level and cemented at the bottom ; ash was thrown in at the front and the contents withdrawn through a door at the back . |
| 17 | Cnicht 's south-west ridge provides a rapid direct ascent to the summit , with some pleasant scrambling thrown in near the top , and as height is gained the views across Snowdonia gradually unfold . |
| 18 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 19 | Blake was thrown down with the force of the implosion . |
| 20 | ‘ And first of all , I 'm going to climb through the window , ’ she said and reached for a stack of sacking which had been thrown down near the wall and which , piled carefully , might enable her to reach the sill . |
| 21 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 22 | The five Annamese , grunting with pain continued stumbling and staggering around the circle in grotesque imitation of bounding hares while the next group of victims were thrown down in the dirt . |
| 23 | Central to this need are the question marks that the Broadcasting Act has thrown up over the whole of the future of British television and in particular the woolly ‘ quality threshold ’ that franchise holders are expected to meet . |
| 24 | Thrown up to the surface , diced as if by an ace Chinese chef ready for stir fry . |
| 25 | Trees might be planted or earthworks thrown up to the north of a house to disperse harmful ch'i emanating from that quarter . |
| 26 | She was staring at something , the magpie that Lee had thrown up into the tree . |
| 27 | Blood mingled with the dust thrown up by the battle . |
| 28 | A melodramatic storyline of incestuous desire , Unrequited love and violent revenge ; a mythic framework of gods in conflict and supernatural mosters thrown up by the sea . |
| 29 | Creatures thrown up by the sea , stalled on the sands , undecided , indecisive , neither hot nor cold , neither fish nor fowl . |
| 30 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |