Example sentences of "[be] throw [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | The tendency for anyone unused to such enormous forces is literally to be thrown over the handlebars . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yellow plastic ducks went round and round , inviting hoops to be thrown over them . |
| 7 | We cadets spent that morning sewing shackles into confidential documents , so that they could be thrown over the side if anything untoward happened . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The better-structured , more competitive farmers would be thrown to the wolves . |
| 10 | He had hacked at the man 's naked backside until it fell away in bloody pieces ready to be thrown to the dogs . |
| 11 | On the third attempt James Dougal brought the lifeboat close enough for a heaving line to be thrown to the divers . |
| 12 | There is good reason why the easier work should be thrown to the girls . |
| 13 | Mm Company deserves to be thrown to the wolves and . |
| 14 | There are six punching moves which can be thrown with either fist . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 21 | Even the most cool-headed individuals can be thrown into a mild panic at the prospect of organising Christmas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | First , some part of an object ( or process , etc. ) may be thrown into relief relative to other parts . |
| 27 | ‘ Why may not a whole estate be thrown into a kind of garden ? ’ asked Joseph Addison in 1712 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 30 | This question will be thrown into sharp focus when the pending NCMD policy statement document is published . |