Example sentences of "throw [pn reflx] at the " in BNC.

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1	A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk .
2	He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working .
3	It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball .
4	Another sharp blast of heavy rain threw itself at the windowpanes of her flat , and brought Leith , startled , out of the brown study she had fallen into .
5	Ace threw herself at the speeder controls , stamping on the throttle override while wrenching the steering column forward .
6	The hounds threw themselves at the gate .
7	I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it .
8	He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net .
9	His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next .
10	Why the hell did n't you throw yourself at the door ? ’
11	‘ If they 're sensible they do and their daughters will know what it 's all about and wo n't throw themselves at the first lad who looks at them .
12	out armour , throwing himself at the enemy , and the ignorant sympathisers remonstrated with him .
13	But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud .
14	By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ .
15	Splashing through the dark flood , I was again throwing myself at the door when a key turned in its great lock and it opened .

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