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I tried to jump but nothing happened; instead they dragged me and threw me outside the truck.
He did, however, refer to "immature and irresponsible behaviour" by Shoraka when she threw paint at Downing Street's gates in 2004 while dressed as a judge.
One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.
The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".
Then Sarkozy turned up five minutes before the event was due to begin and threw a tantrum: he had just discovered he was in a debate, he claimed, moreover a debate with a journalist, of all things.
When Pietroni became a distinguished academic, he threw a party to celebrate, to which a couple of Americans were invited.
When Edgecombe showed up in a taxi at Ward's flat at 17 Wimpole Mews in Marylebone, she refused to see him and threw a £1 note out of the window for the cab fare.
After much winking from her bewigged husband, she located the offending item, and in a fit of rage threw it into the audience; it nearly took somebody's eye out.
However, he saw limited playing time and threw two interceptions and no touchdowns, completing just 51.4% of his passes.
Matthaus's searching centre from the right found him in space in the penalty area with only Goycochea barring the way, but the sweeper's first touch was poor and enabled the goalkeeper to avert the danger with his legs, over which Augenthaler then threw himself, vainly appealing for a penalty.
That seems to have been the moment when Barclays abandoned its freshly-minted pledges about paying less and instead threw money at the would-be defectors to persuade them to stay (with only partial success) in order to "defend the franchise".
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The primary grammatical function of "threw" is as the simple past tense form of the verb "throw". It indicates a completed action in the past, where something was propelled through the air with force. Ludwig confirms that the word is correct and usable in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
