Example sentences of "[vb mod] throw at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our combined age is 151 so we think we can cope with any problems life may throw at us ! ’ he jokes . |
| 2 | ‘ If I 'm to talk to Evelyn Lennox , ’ he said calmly , ‘ I need to brief myself in advance with anything she might throw at me . ’ |
| 3 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 4 | It leaves no fortune with regard to what the department of the environment might throw at us next year unless they completely lose their marbles , which after all is always possible . |
| 5 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
| 6 | I was confident of their work and confident of my own ability to cope with anything that this little aircraft could throw at me . |
| 7 | I tried the clean channel ( channel 1 ) first and found that , good as its word , it remained clean , surviving all I could throw at it . |
| 8 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 9 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 10 | The odds are on Sylvester Stallone as ‘ HAUGHEY : Survival Of The Fittest 111 ’ : He took everything they could throw at him … now he 's really mad ! |
| 11 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 12 | Gould rose to the occasion and , driven by the feverish excitement of a treasure-seeker , surmounted every obstacle Tasmania 's chequered geography could throw at him . |
| 13 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 14 | Chairman Sir Denys Henderson attempted to laugh off the company 's poor performance by cracking jokes with the audience , which consisted of the best that world journalism could throw at him . |
| 15 | Paintwork supplied by International for all ten yachts survived the voyage in remarkably good condition , standing up to everything the oceans could throw at it . |
| 16 | His briefer letters to Harry Hooton — avoiding those ‘ terrible letters I used to throw at you last term as it might be from the fruitless monotony of this place ’ — now explain his reading . |
| 17 | Trivial or shallow , in particular , are criticisms levelled at young women for their concern over their appearance ; one of the worst current insults you can throw at an actress or pop star is that she 's a bimbo — concerned only with her looks and nothing else . |
| 18 | Now he 's in the limelight and we 'll have everything he can throw at us — hardly a recipe fro the group 's long standing . |
| 19 | Quality is the most important factor since your brickwork will be exposed to everything the elements can throw at it . |
| 20 | If you have brought up a family , and survived , then you are more than capable for anything nursing can throw at you . |
| 21 | Derek Hallworth , industrial organiser for the north is pictured aboard one of the touring drays , ready for the worst the seaside weather can throw at him . |
| 22 | everything the elements can throw at them . |
| 23 | I am ready and willing to take anything football can throw at me . |
| 24 | The international gateway to the skies has two runways — 2,777 and 1,951 metres long — and is equipped 24 hours a day to cope with the worst the elements can throw at it . |
| 25 | Boxing clever : Chris Eubank ( left ) copes with all that challenger , Lindell Holmes , can throw at him during a successful WBO title defence at Olympia |