Example sentences of "throw [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kenny Milne , who had to deal with the vagaries of a vicious swirl when he threw in at the lineout , thought that the Hastings ' boot was the big difference between the games against France and Wales .
2 threw up towards the end of a student party
3 Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road .
4 ‘ I have n't had an upset stomach since … let me see , it would have been February the twelfth , nineteen fifty-three , the occasion when I crossed to Biarritz during a storm and threw up into the Channel .
5 If it could be arranged , she threw up Into the cars through the holes so created .
6 He threw up on the floor , beer mixed with bile steaming in the cold .
7 That 's when I threw up on the carpet .
8 The young private threw up on the spot — somehow that unblemished body was more disturbing than one with an obvious cause of death .
9 Clift threw up across the sheets .
10 I threw up under the trees .
11 Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was .
12 She threw up in the gutter .
13 I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’
14 ‘ No , this he threw back into the bushes when it snapped and turned in his hand .
15 In addition to being an executive director of Mirror Group Newspapers , Mr. Haines cringingly wrote the authorised biography of the late Robert Maxwell , in which he threw out of the window what little journalistic integrity he ever had .
16 up they threw out onto a dust heap and I used to go and sort out all these bits and er
17 If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table .
18 Is not it a fact that the Labour party would throw out of the window all the grant-maintained schools and return them to the control of its friends in the town halls ?
19 These new men have made me see form , have made me more conscious of the sky where it juts down between houses , of the bright patterns of sunlight which the bath water throws up on the ceiling , of the great ‘ Vs ’ of light that dart through the chinks over the curtain rings , all these are new chords , new keys of design .
20 A barium meal was ordered and the woman was thrown on to a trolley and forced to endure indignities ( being shouted at , roughly handled , and left in a draughty corridor with only me to help her ) at the hands of a very senior consultant radiologist .
21 game in which a ring on a string has to be thrown on to a hook .
22 I remember I had a dream , when I was five or six , of all the books in my mother 's library being thrown on to a bonfire with piles of other books and burnt .
23 Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts .
24 Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ?
25 Closer to the smoking fire , Blake could see that the colours of the flames varied with the different amounts of crushed rocks thrown on to the pyre .
26 Standing in the Platz in her elegant coat and furs Erika was on the verge of tears : first the books were thrown on to the flames and then , in a terrible and inevitable sequence , human beings were put into the incinerators .
27 There was a constant hissing when Zoecke was serving and coins were thrown on to the court .
28 It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties .
29 If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ?
30 This position means that a shadow is inevitably thrown on to the working surface .
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