Example sentences of "[noun] throw [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big confrontation in Parliament today when the opposition threw down a challenge … they want a head to head on march 27 … no we 're not talking politics … we 're talking sport and the boat race |
| 2 | In a series of bloody encounters in 1796 Napoleon threw back the Austrian , liberating the Italians — again — and created several new republics , one of which , the Cisalpine Republic , had Milan as its capital . |
| 3 | Though it was barely nine o'clock , sun blazed down , and already the huge slabs of stone paving the campo threw back an oven heat . |
| 4 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |
| 5 | ‘ Killer Kurt ’ Herwald threw down the best-out-of-three challenge when Southwest adopted his company 's slogan . |
| 6 | Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness . |
| 7 | Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many . |
| 8 | Crabs throw off a leg if it is grabbed by a predator , and scuttle away to the safety of a nearby crevice . |
| 9 | When Lineker threw down the captain 's arm band in disgust , the rift between the pair first became public . |
| 10 | Here was a star who could ask in all earnestness , ‘ What was the colour of the bearded villain 's folder that contained the nuclear secrets which Alan threw down the well before running towards the car park with his sister ? ’ secure in the knowledge that he would receive a suitably excited reply from Manchester Grammar 's finest . |
| 11 | Riven threw back the last of his beer . |
| 12 | The judge threw out the charge , however , after ruling that Novodvorskaya had not used obscene language . |
| 13 | SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury threw down the gauntlet to M & S , Tesco and Safeway yesterday with another set of sparkling results . |
| 14 | Katherine threw back the covers and swung her legs out of bed . |
| 15 | Now with diabetes there 's two types , too much sugar and too little sugar now diabetes erm , Irene said to you , erm is controlled by the insulin in the pancreas in the stomach , it throws out this insulin the liver throws out the sugar and I 'm not going into actual detail , but if there is too little insulin then it is allowing the liver to send out too much glucose , so if , if the person has got this erm pancreas that is n't churning out insulin or too little then your person will have sugar diabetes . |
| 16 | The international dimension throws out a challenge never confronted by Porter before : how will colours developed locally work in other markets , other countries , other climates ? |
| 17 | Hazel dug once more , his fore-paws throwing up the soft , wet soil and slipping against the hard sides of the peg . |
| 18 | I would ask both communities to throw out the gunmen from their midst . |
| 19 | Gerald threw out the ideas like baits , hoping to catch some reaction . |
| 20 | Sheila threw back the bedclothes and sat up , a vision in pink baby doll pyjamas . |
| 21 | Mr Justice Mantell threw out an application by Wandsworth Council for an injunction to block the boycott of national curriculum testing . |
| 22 | Lucie threw down the cup he was holding and drove it into the mud with his foot . |
| 23 | Newman threw out a hand in a helpless gesture . |
| 24 | In the first the computer threw up the names , in the second it allocated the numbers . |
| 25 | Patrick threw back the covers and hopped out of bed . |
| 26 | Patrick threw back the covers and swung his legs out of bed . |
| 27 | Last week , in a stormy session , the European Parliament threw out a voluntary code proposed by officials at the European Commission , which had been drawn up by the baby-food companies themselves . |
| 28 | On May 28th Poland 's parliament threw out the government of Hanna Suchocka by a vote of no confidence and was then unable to come up with a replacement . |
| 29 | I despise the idea and practice of blood sports , but this violent reaction threw up a profile of wildly inconsistent attitudes which puzzles me ; how is it that fox hunting is legal and fishing is the most popular outdoor recreational activity in Britain , yet badger killing invokes a desire for public retribution — lynch mob fever , almost — over and above the punishment of the courts ? |
| 30 | The infant threw back the rope securing the gate and wrenched it open competently . |