Example sentences of "threw [pers pn] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should be back by now ! ’ ran through his mind as the wheel threw them over the top again . |
| 2 | ‘ I just got drunk and threw them over the wall . ’ |
| 3 | Countries near the Rim simply loaded down the books of dead mages with leaden pentalphas and threw them over the Edge . |
| 4 | He dragged her across Park Lane , dodging a last , straggling taxi , almost threw her over the guard rails on the far side of the road into Hyde Park and strode ahead into the looming darkness of the trees . |
| 5 | Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house . |
| 6 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 7 | Alida hauled up the eiderdown from the floor , threw it over the width of the bed , And I , she thought bitterly , I am not young , not a girl , to bend and stoop and struggle with making and tidying this great bed . |