Example sentences of "[be] throw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT&T Co and Unix System Laboratories Inc want to be sure that no one that contributed significantly to the advance of Unix these past 24 years is overlooked at the big bash they 're throwing at UniForum ; all obscure names gratefully received . |
| 2 | AT&T and Unix System Labs want to be sure no one who contributed significantly to the advance of Unix these last 24 years is overlooked at the big bash they 're throwing at Uniforum ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 3 | I would like certainly to see schemes starting where people can be put into worthwhile jobs , where people can start jobs knowing at the end of it that they are not going to be thrown onto the dole queue again . |
| 4 | I mean can you really justify supporting somebody with public money who 's producing the sort of work which if I , as a totally unknown person , produced it would be thrown onto a bonfire ? |
| 5 | The tendency for anyone unused to such enormous forces is literally to be thrown over the handlebars . |
| 6 | As on other issues , Parliament as well as the relevant Ministers , preferred to let the Lord Chancellor 's gown of fairness and impartiality be thrown over what were essentially governmental decisions on where the public interest lay . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yellow plastic ducks went round and round , inviting hoops to be thrown over them . |
| 9 | We cadets spent that morning sewing shackles into confidential documents , so that they could be thrown over the side if anything untoward happened . |
| 10 | There is a point in everyone 's life , he wrote , when all caution must , as they say , be thrown to the winds , all doubts stilled , when the most extreme risks have to be taken . |
| 11 | The better-structured , more competitive farmers would be thrown to the wolves . |
| 12 | He had hacked at the man 's naked backside until it fell away in bloody pieces ready to be thrown to the dogs . |
| 13 | On the third attempt James Dougal brought the lifeboat close enough for a heaving line to be thrown to the divers . |
| 14 | There is good reason why the easier work should be thrown to the girls . |
| 15 | Mm Company deserves to be thrown to the wolves and . |
| 16 | There are six punching moves which can be thrown with either fist . |
| 17 | Quantity is easier to consider than quality , of course , and I have found that a promotions committee can be thrown into bemusement and mild disarray by suggesting that many of the publications on a candidate 's CV might better have not been published . |
| 18 | BRITAIN 'S plans for a new generation of anti-tank weapons , involving projects costing more than £3bn , could be thrown into turmoil after the discovery of new armour on Soviet tanks . |
| 19 | With only 180 sheriffs ' officers throughout Scotland , Simpson acknowledges that the collection process would be thrown into chaos if the non-payers persisted with their rebellion . |
| 20 | It was the calm after high tide when life seems to be held suspended , waiting , breathless , for the tide 's turning when everything will be thrown into motion again . |
| 21 | For example , a normally well-functioning family may be thrown into an acute state of crisis through a traumatic event ; a social work assessment may indicate the need for intervention , of a short-term nature , with a view to restoring non-client status ( Sainsbury , 1977 ; Wharf , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 23 | Even the most cool-headed individuals can be thrown into a mild panic at the prospect of organising Christmas . |
| 24 | It 's basically that we feel the group has to be thrown into different circumstances if it 's going to be stimulated , if it 's going to change . |
| 25 | Can any of your readers imagine what it would be like to be thrown into a ‘ concentration camp ’ for 20 years without trial , and , then the door of that awful place being opened and you are told you may go ? |
| 26 | Cholera epidemics happened regularly in my early years , when the filth from one village would be thrown into the river and water drawn from the same river for the villages downstream . |
| 27 | Although there is only a single Doom Diver model it is assumed that there is an infinite supply of would-be Doom Divers ready and waiting to be thrown into the air . |
| 28 | First , some part of an object ( or process , etc. ) may be thrown into relief relative to other parts . |
| 29 | ‘ Why may not a whole estate be thrown into a kind of garden ? ’ asked Joseph Addison in 1712 . |
| 30 | QB 1 's estimated diameter of 200 km puts it at one tenth the size of Pluto : much larger , and the whole distinction between planets and minor planets would be thrown into doubt . |