Example sentences of "and threw [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 2 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 3 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 4 | Burun caught the outstretched arm , whipped Orcadai round , and threw him back down the stairs . |
| 5 | On the bank , the trumpet twittered again , and the water became full of spray and hurtling bodies as shoremen left their attack and threw themselves back on the sand . |
| 6 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 7 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 8 | On an impulse , he removed his cap and threw it on to the back seat . |
| 9 | The maydes came in to make the bed , and hearing a thing in a case cry Tick , Tick , Tick , presently concluded that it was his Devill , and took it by the string with the tongues , and threw it out of the windowe into the mote ( to drown the Devill ) . |
| 10 | He caught the peel before it hit the floor and threw it out of the window . |
| 11 | Then he picked up a rock from the shallow water at the edge of the pool and threw it out into the middle , making a huge splash ; the rings of the splash spread nearly to the edge of the pool . |
| 12 | But Bush waited , and then he took something out of his pocket and threw it down on the desk . |
| 13 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 14 | She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks . |
| 15 | She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows . |