Holding a controller in each hand, players throw punches into the air to control the on-screen action.

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And by the time Where the Streets Have No Name boomed out of the speakers it was definitely a case of forget about drinking the lager - let's throw it in the air, rip off our T-shirts and jump as high as we can.

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We buy the clubs, balls and golf fashions that we do largely based on the pros' example, and the same goes for how everyday players line up putts, take practice swings, throw grass in the air and dither around the course like they're being paid by the hour.

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The most famous edit in that film is when the apes throw bone up into the air and then there's a cut - and that is a spaceship floating beautifully through space to the Blue Danube music.

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Throw you up in the air.

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The air is so thin that the first glimmer of sun can throw it into violent convection, lofting up into towering thermals, twisting into dust devils, and collapsing back down as they cool.

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It may even throw local authorities' Diamond Jubilee celebrations up in the air.

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Whereas a conventional shoe, like a Nike Air, is built for heel-striking when you run, barefoot throw you onto your sole.

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But then throw in the Kamchatka volcanoes, which are throwing massive amounts of dust into the air, causing the Arctic to be even colder and Arctic winds to push farther south, and you get a very drastic change in patterns.

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