Example sentences of "thrown over [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And it could just as easily be the shepherd lying still with an old sheepskin thrown over him . |
| 2 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 3 | Rebecca lured him to her side , and he went willingly , his mind fogged by the cloudy veil that Neptune had thrown over him . |
| 4 | We joined the crowd before our handiwork was noticed and watched as Mary and Albert had more confetti thrown over them as they stood on the threshold of the church . |
| 5 | Yellow plastic ducks went round and round , inviting hoops to be thrown over them . |
| 6 | Thus when the girl secretary who was to become Dostoevsky 's wife rang the bell of his flat for the first time , the door was opened by an elderly woman servant with a green shawl thrown over her shoulders . |
| 7 | Just before it began to get light , Liza Carrow , carrying a torch and with an old coat thrown over her nightdress , crept out of Four Winds and walked towards the cliff . |
| 8 | After this , a female healer had come into the room , dressed in an Ixmaritian robe but with a colourful blanket thrown over her shoulders . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I am running out of money , ’ she added , and she crossed her fingers beneath the light blanket which Miss Mates had thrown over her earlier and asked God to forgive her for such dreadful lies , and so many of them . |
| 10 | This came out so comically that they both began to laugh together , Neil putting his book down , and McAllister whooping into the apron which she had thrown over her head at his last sally , as though she were truly the skivvy she pretended to be . |
| 11 | I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes , and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth . |
| 12 | She made the headlines by having a glass of wine thrown over her at the plushy Caprice restaurant in London . |
| 13 | Mrs Carson , Alas in a bunk with a blanket thrown over her , was clearly relieved to see Ruth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One long , heavily muscled leg had been thrown over hers , pinning her beneath him . |
| 17 | Travis followed her down , his hard body half-covering her , one of his legs thrown over hers to keep her still . |
| 18 | Children are likely to play ball against your side wall and you may find yourself picking litter out of the garden which has been thrown over your wall or fence . |
| 19 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 20 | He sported designer jeans , three days ' growth of beard and an elegant leather jacket that he had thrown over his shoulders against the cold . |
| 21 | She was in a dinner dress , with a coat thrown over it . |
| 22 | A dark cloth had been thrown over it , covering it completely . |
| 23 | The impact demolished the wall , and the baby 's mother was thrown over it , but the child was unharmed . |