Example sentences of "throw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Natural History of Nematodes it is unfortunate that George Poinar Jr does not throw off the armour of nomenclature which prevents the general student from getting to grips with these creatures . |
| 2 | It just says that some parts of the business will throw off cash surpluses , that it may well not be worth investing further in those businesses , and that , in that case , the funds can be used to further investment elsewhere . |
| 3 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 4 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 5 | This came when the satellite threw off the cover that had protected the sensitive detectors during the launch and afterwards , while the team at the operations centre at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory checked that the telescope was pointing correctly . |
| 6 | Thomas threw off the question lightly . |
| 7 | He threw off the pau and stood there over her , naked , seeing how eagerly she watched him now . |
| 8 | At the end of that period Penda 's young son , Wulfhere , came to power in a coup in Mercia which expelled Oswiu 's governors and threw off Oswiu 's overlordship ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 9 | The Dalriadic Scots and the Britons , probably of Strathclyde , whom Ecgfrith had almost certainly driven into alliance with the Picts in 685 through his claims to supremacy over them ( see above , p. 100 ) , regained their independence , and the Picts threw off the overlordship of the northern Anglian king and recaptured territory formerly held by the Angles ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 10 | In doing this , Carvajal and his colleagues finally threw off the disguise of Roman Catholicism , which by then must have worn very thin . |
| 11 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 12 | Giving herself a mental shake , she threw off the thoughts . |
| 13 | Without thought , Theda threw off the covers and swung her feet to the floor . |
| 14 | Then , almost overnight it seemed , Oxfordshire suddenly threw off the mantle of winter . |
| 15 | Who threw off his clothes and danced naked in front of the Holy Art ? |
| 16 | After the eruption of Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 , which threw between five and ten times as much muck into the atmosphere as Pinatubo , the north east of America endured the famous ‘ year without summer ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ And then , my lord King , ’ Scandlain said , ‘ every man in the dragon-ships jumped to his feet with a spear in his hand and cast the spear through the heart of a man in the Orkney ship next to him , and , after that , threw aboard grappling-irons . |
| 18 | MIKE TOMCZAK , the Chicago Bears quarterback , threw for three touchdowns and Neal Anderson rushed for another as Chicago staved off a fourth-quarter rally by the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night to win 27-13 . |
| 19 | TROY AIKMAN threw for three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title with a 41-17 NFL rout of the Atlanta Falcons . |
| 20 | Quarterback Stan Humphries threw for 275 yards , including 46 yards to Nate Lewis to set up the winning fourth-quarter touchdown . |
| 21 | JIM KELLY ran for one touchdown and threw for another as Buffalo beat Denver 27-17 to move within sight of an NFL play-off spot . |
| 22 | Emmitt Smith rushed for 163 yards and Troy Aikman threw for 214 yards and two touchdowns as the Cowboys avenged their only defeat of the season by beating Philadelphia Eagles 20–10 . |
| 23 | Bobby Hebert threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns for the Saints . |
| 24 | ‘ Arnold left her all the money in the world and she gives us the sort of barbecue we threw for our friends in Haywards Heath . ’ |
| 25 | I threw for life , and I won life . |
| 26 | Their Christmas parties were very special , too , and they always gave one for their staff the night after the one they threw for their friends . |
| 27 | He looked broken like the toy he threw against the wall . |
| 28 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |
| 29 | This he threw with a flicking movement on to a pile of scrap iron before making his way towards them , kicking out of his path and on to yet another pile the remnants of what had been a pair of trousers . |
| 30 | The Feldwebel took it into a corner and pulled out a large envelope which he threw onto the table . |