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It used to be I could go out and throw a match.

I threw a match in the bowl and challenged him to sink it first.

I'm nervous somebody might throw a match in there.

It's worth thinking about the incentive a wrestler might have to throw a match.

By using it to throw a match upon an already incendiary situation?"

President Black had at least seen the folly of throwing a match into a tinderbox.

And then the 16-year old "threw a match" at the younger boy "as a joke."

Ron kills the scorpion by throwing a match into its head.

He pronounced the death sentence, then threw a match.

In April 1963, he took a £300 bribe to throw a match.

He throws a match into the rubbish on his way out and tries to kiss Sophie.

"And ten minutes later somebody soaks the place with gasoline and throws a match."

I thought it'd be smart to step inside and suggest he throw a match or three, in the name of helping us all stay inconspicuous."

Today "an undercover journalist from the News of the World offering money for him to throw a match was accepted."

Would Connors throw a match if he felt that by dominating he was hurting his tour?

Along with two players and a club official, President Bernard is being accused of trying to bribe a team to throw a match.

Would Boariyi also throw a match for him?

Mayor Giuliani, quoting fire officials, said the fire apparently started when the 12-year-old threw a match in a bedroom, thinking that it was out.

However, after being tricked into throwing a match, he regrets his choice and is literally torn between his two choices.

There's no way the British and Americans could not have known that their withdrawal would be tantamount to throwing a match into dry kindling.

Once the pride of the British National team, Danny was banished from the sport after throwing a match.

Some mechanic tossed out a bucket of gasoline, threw a match into the liquid, and it flared up, lighting the way for the plane.

They poured the fuel over Mr. dos Santos and threw a match at him, then fled by car.

This is known as throwing a game or taking a dive.

He had been averaging barely four free throws a game.

That's why they get 16 more free throws a game than us."

He's only got to make one or two throws a game."

Only one of the players is accused of taking action to throw a game.

The fact that their opponents are averaging 28 free throws a game, second most in the league, does not help either.

During the regular season, they held opponents to an average of 21.18 free throws a game, second lowest in the league.

Cindy convinces Alan to throw a game for the money.

"I haven't thrown a game like this in a long time," Key conceded.

"The bottom line is the allegation of throwing a game we totally deny," he said.

But Aaron has a gambling problem and is blackmailed into throwing a game.

But no more preposterous than suggesting that the players would throw a game or two to create higher shares.

And Dallas, which shoots 11.7 fewer free throws a game, is the only team that had a larger differential.

After his major league career, he was involved in a scandal involving possibly throwing a game for money, and committed suicide.

"To work at it and come back and throw a game where you can help the team win, it's satisfying," Wright said.

Yes, but nowhere has Rose ever been accused of throwing a game or trying as a player to do anything but his best to win.

Both had been accused, by Dutch Leonard, of conspiracy to throw a game in 1919.

Hobbs has a special name for his bat (as Jackson did), and is offered a bribe to throw a game.

Miami entered the game as the league's only team attempting fewer than 20 free throws a game, with 19.

Over the course of their three playoff rounds in the East, the Nets averaged 29 free throws a game.

"When it comes down to something as simple as throwing a game to keep the peace, just do it.

The Knicks have attempted 7.4 fewer free throws a game than their opponents.

"Rose was never complicit in throwing a game.

"That is to ensure that no native throws a game to a Hectare.

February 3 - Cherokee Fisher admits taking $100 to throw a game from the 1876 season.

Hardly the act of a man trying to throw a fight.

He refuses to throw a fight with the Thing, and was defeated.

"Someone once suggested that he throw a fight," one speaker said.

However, Hammer doesn't realize that the help comes at a price: he is asked to throw a fight.

I too have practised throwing a fighting axe for most of my life.

Ward was known to be corrupt having once thrown a fight for £100.

Nor had she ever once thrown a fight.

Then, the story goes, he took a bung to throw a fight, got caught and lost his licence.

When Lee gets in the middle, Michael throws a fight, shocking all the guests.

A person he knew in prison finds him and blackmails him into throwing a fight.

"He was in a bind," Foley said, "owed a lot of money and got forced into throwing a fight.

It's a deliberate way of throwing a fight."

"He had to throw a fight, right?"

Terry, who could have been a contender but who threw a fight out of loyalty to friends, exemplifies everything that the film is about.

To us, we're throwing the fight, but we didn't write a record that's throwing a fight.

"The Punch," an American film, was about an amateur boxer who throws a fight to earn money for his invalid mother.

When he refuses to throw a fight because his son is in the audience, he is killed by one of the Fixer's men.

No doping case had ever been traced back to them; no boxer who had thrown a fight led back to them.

In December 1992, When Austin fails to throw a fight, Carrie becomes the victim of an acid attack intended for him.

A young prizefighter (Tommy Kelly, played by John Smith ) finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.

His father, a boxer named Jack Murdock, supports him as he grows up, though Jack is later killed by gangsters after refusing to throw a fight.

And when Jack returns to the ring and is killed for refusing to throw a fight, his son swears revenge: "I would seek justice, one way or another."

For decades he has claimed that he was once given 13 priceless diamonds by a mobster named Duff the Muff for agreeing to throw a fight.

Hammer: Stars Fred Williamson as B.J. Hammer, a boxer who gets mixed up with a crooked manager who wants him to throw a fight for the Mafia.