Sentence examples for be thrown on from inspiring English sources

Sorting through them yesterday it was a wrench every time one had to be thrown on the 'no' pile".

He was, of course, most famously reticent on the matter in On The Origin of Species, noting himself in 1871 that his only mention of human origins had been one single throwaway comment, in his concluding section: "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (Darwin 1859, p. 488).

That flag should be thrown on Favre every time he starts hinting at unretiring.

If another cat vomited on that sheet, another sheet would be thrown on top of it.

Buchan's stony-faced Bolingbroke needs to be thrown on to the back foot more decisively at those points.

The key, Mohammad told me, is to ask for the hot dog to be thrown on the grill.

The Paris attacks provided an opportunity for several moribund moggies to be thrown on the table of public discourse.

Now fresh light may be thrown on an earlier, still darker, period of Belgium's reign over Congo.

Lawmaking at the investigatory stage may properly probe historic events for any light that may be thrown on present conditions and problems.

Tags should not be thrown on the floor of the cages or costume closet or left on the items after the reservations dates have passed.

But all of this calculus could be thrown on its head if the doomsayers are right and interest rates rise quickly at some point.