Example sentences of "[noun] thrown in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 2 | ‘ Scouts can earn between ten or fifteen grand , with a company car thrown in . |
| 3 | They are mainly mechanical engineers , with odds and sods like electrical and chemical thrown in . |
| 4 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 5 | Kossack met Highlander in combinations of tunic , kilt and breeches , with a touch of monkey fur or fake chinchilla thrown in . |
| 6 | Should the requirement be for text with the occasional graphic such as a bar chart or line drawing thrown in then many of those just mentioned will look after this as well . |
| 7 | Not that it 'd need to — Grandmaster Chess might be showing its age a bit , but if you can put up with its idiosyncrasies it 's a bargain at £1.99 , especially with Renaissance Othello thrown in for good measure . |
| 8 | This Jewish atmosphere is the main memory from the film , along with Melanie Griffith 's character development , and a bit of action thrown in . |
| 9 | Anyone minded just to sample VSOE Pullman luxury on ‘ the British bit ’ — and many do — could travel Victoria-Folkestone return , with champagne , lunch , a half-bottle of wine and afternoon cream tea thrown in , for £125 . |
| 10 | Modelled on claret and made from Cabernet Sauvignon with Syrah and Cinsault thrown in , there 's a ripe fruitiness to this well-balanced wine , pepped up by a shake of spice . |
| 11 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 12 | It is , for example , some sort of commentary on our times that , if one is content to stick to theology , with some Greek and Latin texts thrown in , it is possible to assemble a representative collection from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And ‘ Introduction ’ , currently with a three-track freebie thrown in , invests all his experience in the pursuit of perfection . |
| 16 | Cnicht 's south-west ridge provides a rapid direct ascent to the summit , with some pleasant scrambling thrown in near the top , and as height is gained the views across Snowdonia gradually unfold . |
| 17 | Like a David Goodis noir novel reset in Deptford with an extraneous espionage plot thrown in for good measure |
| 18 | There it now stands , its cracks colonized by ferns and wormwood — nothing especially beautiful in itself , but a piece of history and natural history , with literary associations thrown in . |
| 19 | Much of her spare time is taken up acting as Paul 's secretary for gymnastics with the occasional game of badminton and tennis thrown in ! |
| 20 | He would have enjoyed being solicitous after — handing her the Vaseline , witch hazel and bandages with a pious lecture thrown in . |
| 21 | But while RoboCop is basically an entertaining comedy with some ‘ serious ’ ideas thrown in for ballast , Day of the Dead , despite grotesque comedy elements , mostly involving blood-and-guts , is fundamentally more serious , an adult rather than an ‘ adult ’ movie . |
| 22 | Two nights in a basic standard hotel , with breakfast and a cruise along the Seine thrown in , are on offer for £115 a person for a shared room . |
| 23 | It includes two nights in a luxury hotel , with breakfast , dinner at one of the capital 's top restaurants — with a chauffeur driven car for the evening thrown in . |
| 24 | Hilary Wright , in an article on Violet Needham , points out that the various countries are ‘ clearly recognizable as pre-1914 Austria-Hungary , with contributions thrown in from France and the Netherlands ’ , and that it was a world in which Violet Needham had lived herself . |
| 25 | If the Commission sells it cheaply — for a few pence a kilo , with free transport thrown in — it is criticised for recklessness with public money . |
| 26 | The game itself is an interesting mix of platform hopping and hand-to-hand combat , with a few subgames thrown in for good measure . |
| 27 | One minute she was enjoying it — oh , with a few protests thrown in , like she did n't know me well enough , she should n't be doing it , and so on — nothing serious . |
| 28 | The top price for one of the 35 units is just under a quarter of a million , but they do get the unique chimney thrown in . |
| 29 | Well , Derbyshire with a bit of Yorkshire thrown in . |
| 30 | This woman has n't a bean , so she 's going to pose for my wife and her girlfriends once a month or so , and she 'll get the classes thrown in free . |