Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 15 | There is an intense thirst and the patient wants to throw off the bedclothes . |
| 16 | Had he heard the accusations she 'd thrown at Doreen ? |
| 17 | For the first time , she saw he was holding the roses she 'd thrown from the window , and he handed them to her . |
| 18 | He was a fervent anti-communist who could comprehend and believe that people everywhere would choose to throw off the communist system if they ever had the chance . |
| 19 | Now she and her husband , the cook , have decided to throw in their two Michelin rosettes and relax . |
| 20 | So now , like Virgin founder Richard Branson before him , Sugar has decided to throw in the towel and buy his firm back . |
| 21 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 22 | Noting that Buthelezi 's own organization 's membership was falling , and his anxiety about the growing popularity of the ANC , Maj. Botha warned that Buthelezi could " seriously consider throwing in his lot with the ANC with far-reaching implications for Natal and the RSA [ Republic of South Africa ] " . |
| 23 | There 's a lot to discuss here , and er I just wonder if you 'd like to throw in your two penn'orth before I talk to our diplomatic correspondent , David Spannier on this subject , after the seven o'clock news . |
| 24 | Well and also I 'd like to throw in my , my views of these people who advise young children on their careers . |
| 25 | This might be thought to throw into disarray our grounds for specifying what animals see , hear , and otherwise sense . |
| 26 | And Wilson here is , we might say , the future — the first sign that British society is going to throw off the shackles of racism and colonialism and produce something genuinely multicultural , like … er … him ! ’ |
| 27 | You are good but soon I am going to throw into your back a whole phalanx of new ones . |
| 28 | He did not dwell on the hyena spotted in blood that Abraham was going to throw into hell on the Day of Resurrection , or on the necessity of chopping male infidels into small pieces . |
| 29 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 30 | Examples of an article ‘ intended ’ for use as an offensive weapon include a dart which the accused intends to throw in a football crowd or a pocket full of stones which the accused intends to throw at members of a rival demonstration . |