Example sentences of "have throw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the horse and the rider he has thrown into the sea . |
| 2 | Whatever the British weather has thrown at them , flower growers up and down the country produce their best for the Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 3 | The British people have absorbed everything that the IRA has thrown at them , but it is no secret that they are increasingly war-weary and exasperated by the lack of political progress . |
| 4 | Dallas is dull by comparison , at last Scottish football has thrown off the mantle of miserable weather and abortive pies , the glamorous dynasty of soap-opera management had arrived . |
| 5 | AN elite corps of transatlantic guardians of the English language has thrown in the towel . |
| 6 | And all their propaganda goes unanswered because the Labour Party has thrown in the towel before the fight has even started . |
| 7 | Many companies offer mechanical fishing equipment but so far only one , a firm in Shizuoka called Sanmei , has thrown in computerisation as well . |
| 8 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 9 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its Unix fax unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year . |
| 10 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 11 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its facsimile software for Unix unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year . |
| 12 | It has thrown in the sponge … |
| 13 | The talented Bell has been ear-marked for big things this season and has thrown in his lot initially with the Eaton Park side . |
| 14 | Had he heard the accusations she 'd thrown at Doreen ? |
| 15 | For the first time , she saw he was holding the roses she 'd thrown from the window , and he handed them to her . |
| 16 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 17 | This was the price he paid far having thrown in his lot with a person who with all her virtues — generosity , warmth of character , genuine and passionate admiration , as well as love , for Lewis himself — did not have the concept of a working day . |
| 18 | One would be if- I will not say the Labour Party but the extreme Labour Party — were to get so powerful that it would be a menace and we should have thrown on the other scale all that was moderate in the Liberal Party as well as our own Party . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Labour may have thrown in the towel , but the SNP will continue to lead the fight to defeat the poll tax and to rid our nation of the nuclear menace . ’ |
| 20 | The harder we work , the more our lads will have to throw at the bastards . ’ |
| 21 | And at last they appear to have thrown off the similarities with Daisy Chainsaw ( which stemmed from their singers being sisters ) to adopt a Hazel O'Connor/Sugarcubes approach . |
| 22 | Iraq is a grim model of what kind of thing the next secretary-general should expect to have thrown at him . |
| 23 | It has asserted again and again that it will not adopt Unix SVR4 outright , and even seemed to have thrown in its lot with the Open Software Foundation when the Advanced Computing Environment launched its initiative last year . |
| 24 | Utilities Xtradrive is one of those bits of software you can install and forget — in every test we 've thrown at it , it has been totally transparent to the user — but even so , there are some interesting utilities included with it . |
| 25 | Compatibility With the exception of certain disk-fiddling utilities , as previously mentioned , Xtradrive exists very happily with everything we 've thrown at it , and has not yet provided any cause for palpitations or sticky moments of any description . |
| 26 | ‘ Listen , you … you … , ’ she spluttered , ‘ I 've coped with everything you 've thrown at me today . |
| 27 | For those bogwarts who 're still stuck , I 've thrown in a few tips this month . |
| 28 | Er and basically that 's I 'm beginning to feel that I 've thrown in a bit of a red herring here . |
| 29 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |
| 30 | In spite of everything that history had thrown at them since then the Kaszubes had remained in their chosen place . |