Example sentences of "[noun sg] throw [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the non-TUC Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel will today begin receiving ballot forms and a letter from their ruling body explaining why APAP leaders agreed to recommend acceptance of an 18-month , 9 per cent deal thrown out by other unions . |
| 2 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 3 | Although in nature the feeding pattern of Etroplus suratensis is markedly herbivorous , in captivity the pattern is omnivorous , greedily devouring all of the usual cichlid foods ie. beef-heart , mussel , bloodworm , shrimp and pond pellets with the occasional lettuce thrown in for additional roughage . |
| 4 | Like a David Goodis noir novel reset in Deptford with an extraneous espionage plot thrown in for good measure |
| 5 | The ability to laugh at themselves was never more evident as the three took their audience on a comic tour of Jewish life as we know it today with a smattering of politics , anti-semitism and Zionism thrown in for good measure . |
| 6 | Everybody who buys MSDOS 5.0 gets a disk cache thrown in for free — same applies to DR DOS in its various versions . |
| 7 | No allowance had been made for the physical difficulty of getting heavy guns over a battlefield where all roads had been obliterated and every inch of ground thrown up into huge mounds and craters by the attackers ' own bombardment . |
| 8 | The quadriathlon , still in its infancy , is basically a triathlon with a gruelling canoe leg thrown in for good measure , and East Anglia has one of the leading exponents in this new sport . |
| 9 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 10 | This is very much a ‘ people ’ story and concentrates on the day-to-day happenings in The Mob , with a fair amount of humour thrown in for good measure . |
| 11 | Also profiting from the New Europe , with a sprinkling of gardening thrown in for good measure , is Weidenfeld and Nicolson with J.M. Dent 's Germany : Architecture , Interiors , Landscape , Gardens by Christa von Richthofen with photographs by Oliver Benn ( £30 ) . |
| 12 | in my view thrown off without any reasonable excuse , because I felt that I could bring a lot of expertise to the health authority . |