Example sentences of "throw at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just like Thomas , I could sight-read anything she threw at me . |
| 2 | All the new arrivals settled in well and showed a healthy interest in every sort of food I threw at them — flake , pellets , frozen bloodworm , cockles etc . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a creditable show was put on for the public , which in true GWAD fashion , stood their ground despite what the elements threw at them . |
| 4 | Alistair had not been a published screenplay writer long enough to respond to , or even recognize , this graphic proposition ( though he did keep the telephone number she threw at his feet ) . |
| 5 | Nobody likes to have their freedom taken away from them , but all the abuse and everything they threw at me — it just made me stronger each time . |
| 6 | Earn , she threw at him . |
| 7 | Jessamy threw at him scornfully . |
| 8 | ‘ That could cost you your job , ’ she threw at him . |
| 9 | She could cope with anything Luke Hunter threw at her . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're early ! ’ she threw at him accusingly . |
| 11 | She really believed I would put up with anything she threw at me just so I could possess her . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 13 | ‘ Would n't threw at me be a more apt way of phrasing it ? ’ |
| 14 | What was it you threw at me , not so long back ? |
| 15 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 16 | He sighs : ‘ The rights I threw at Lou were n't punches , I was just feeling his face and hoping to line up the target for my lefts . ’ |
| 17 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Because I ca n't afford one ! ’ she threw at him , automatically dusting off her hands a little . |
| 19 | ‘ I am your mistress , Benedict ! ’ she threw at him . |
| 20 | Theda threw at him before she could stop herself , as an echo of the pain he had inflicted rose again inside her . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 22 | She would grit her teeth and take everything he threw at her — for the time being . |
| 23 | The next few years he spent in travel and ( dread words ) in commerce , drinking in the wonderful perplexities that Europe , after India and Scotland , threw at him . |
| 24 | ‘ Just in case you do n't know — though I 'm sure you do , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I made my home with my aunt and uncle from the age of ten . |
| 25 | As far as Wales are concerned , the feeling afterwards was a sense of relief for being able to throw back at the French everything their opponents threw at them and a mood of confidence that their hard work is slowly paying dividends . |
| 26 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 27 | He , in the , in the early nineteen-fifties he once came to , he came to Oxford , and there was a meeting at which erm all my colleagues threw at him very sophisticated objections to his philosophical position . |
| 28 | Ryland Davies is a fluent and musically amiable Jenik , but he is plainly not at home in the long and crucial stretches of middle-to-low register that Smetana throws at him ; and the same is true of David Owen 's otherwise rather stylish Vasek . |
| 29 | Insignia , which Microsoft 's Windows NT is using to run 16-bit MS-DOS and Windows applications , will apparently be the other — binary — rock Microsoft throws at WABI . |
| 30 | Insignia 's SoftPC — which is being used to run 16-bit MS-DOS and Windows applications under Windows NT — will be the other binary rock that Microsoft throws at WABI . |