Example sentences of "[vb past] be throw over " in BNC.

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1 A rope had been thrown over a low beam in the room and tied to the top of the Bookman 's cage .
2 Beer had been thrown over a local and Slatter was obviously to blame .
3 She felt as though a web had been thrown over her , the same web in which — ; however little he knew it — Edwin Frere was deeply entangled .
4 It was as though a white cloak had been thrown over the entire countryside , a cloak which gleamed beneath an enormous ghostly-white moon , robbing the night of its darkness .
5 A dark cloth had been thrown over it , covering it completely .
6 One long , heavily muscled leg had been thrown over hers , pinning her beneath him .
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