Example sentences of "throw in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after Commodore cut the price by £100 , and threw in the £25 add-on TV adaptor , the Amiga took off as a games machine . |
| 2 | Then he threw in the spice and seasoning : ‘ By stirring up people 's fears unnecessarily , jobs have been endangered by the Labour Opposition . ’ |
| 3 | The 6ft 9in American centre scored 31 points , gathered several fistfuls of rebounds , hit two one-handed slams and threw in a three-pointer to lead Kingston into the semi-finals of the men 's competition with a 112-62 win over an underpowered team from Oslo . |
| 4 | But this time the TSEMI man kept on talking , and threw in his lot with Mr Yeltsin . |
| 5 | The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned . |
| 6 | ‘ The bosses went bankrupt , so they sold the whole place , auctioned it off , and threw in the apprentices as well . |
| 7 | Before Mussolini was able to take his chance , Italy was drawn into World War I. At first she remained neutral , but in 1915 threw in her lot with the allies and declared war on Austria . |
| 8 | Stirling kicked open the door and threw in a grenade , apparently saying ‘ Here , catch . ’ |
| 9 | Other notables this year were the backflipping roller skaters Richard Mason and Mick Beausang who even threw in a half twist until he broke his wrist . |
| 10 | He threw in a bucket of groundbait , a pint of maggots , and fished all night without a bite . |
| 11 | So I did , just for a fortnight , but it was fourteen miles there in the morning , and fourteen back at night , and I 'm afraid I threw in the sponge ! |
| 12 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 13 | I removed as much as I could with my fingers , turned off the lights , added more plants and threw in one of those Nitrasafe bags . |
| 14 | And , just in case anyone wanted a Regarding Henry message , he threw in one of those as well : do n't be a workaholic yuppie asshole , do n't lose sight of the child inside you , and do n't miss any of your son 's Little League matches . |
| 15 | The monks and nuns , virtually pensioned-off gentry , could see little future except death in resisting the royal will and threw in their lot with a change that would guarantee them reasonable security . |
| 16 | At the end of the 1975 season , he threw in the towel — though Hesketh , under Horsley , was to stagger on for two more years , with indifferent results . |
| 17 | Hall threw in the third crate for a Quinn goal that was disallowed . |
| 18 | Another fine prospect is Adrian Davies , the Cambridge University captain , but he has n't been blessed with much luck recently and I hope his experiences in Australia , when some of his team-mates threw in the towel , will not have destroyed his confidence . |
| 19 | When the table was ready she filled a deep pan with water and put it on the cooker , her movements slow and simpering in contrast to those of her mother , who quickly poured olive oil into a big black frying-pan , threw in the artichokes , covered them and rinsed her hands and arms before drawing a chair up to one of the cauldrons and sliding into the curd up to her elbows . |
| 20 | But while he has anguished over his role in life , to the point where it would surprise no one if he just threw in the towel tomorrow and went off in search of obscurity , Steffi appears to have suffered no such agonies and self-doubt . |
| 21 | Though America 's economic hegemony ended 20 years ago , the consequences of this were little appreciated within America , for the country 's military and geopolitical power went unchallenged until 1989–91 , when its old enemy threw in the towel . |
| 22 | Bell Atlantic acquired its VLIW technology from minisupercomputer builder Multiflow Computers Inc for an undisclosed fee after the pioneer of that particular brand of computing threw in the towel back in 1990 when it ran out of cash ( UX No 276 ) . |
| 23 | Texas Instruments Inc finally threw in the towel on the wasting asset of its computer business , and signed a letter of intent to sell it to Hewlett-Packard Co on undisclosed terms . |
| 24 | It was , it was used used to be stuff from these restaurants and they were n't particular what they threw in it was all these knives and things |
| 25 | Thus , at the end of April , as the battle over budget-cutting came to a head in the House with members asked to choose between the Democratic-controlled Budget Committee package and the administration-sponsored Gramm-Latta substitute , O'Neill , ‘ threw in the towel two days before the actual vote . ’ |
| 26 | At the next meeting of the Unionist Cabinet Ministers Boscawen threw in his lot with me . |
| 27 | They made 100 variations from this negative and then threw in No.101 ( which measures 1397 x 2743 mm ) and No.102 illustrated here . |
| 28 | Almost casually , I threw in the question about the Daily Mirror attack on him . |
| 29 | Preston threw in the towel before it went the whole distance . |
| 30 | It was here that the French finally threw in their hand . |