Example sentences of "[was/were] thrown into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many English settlers ( some say 154 ) were thrown into the Bann and drowned . |
| 2 | Both bodies were thrown into the shark-infested sea and many wounds could have been caused following the women 's deaths . |
| 3 | Five army staff windsurfing at Giltar Point , off Tenby , were thrown into the water after being hit by a squall . |
| 4 | More and more men were thrown into the struggle on both sides ; even so , it was May before the French were completely cleared from the left bank of the Meuse . |
| 5 | The king or chieftain would make the offering on behalf of his people and they were thrown into the sacred lake or pool with appropriate ritual ceremony . |
| 6 | Most probably they were thrown into the sea to lighten the load when the ship found itself in difficulties . |
| 7 | A lot of coins were thrown into the guitar case and some of them were pounds . |
| 8 | Jack and Wise were thrown into the water , but scrambled back onto the aircraft , which remained afloat . |
| 9 | Under cover of the machine-gun turrets in the fort ( operated by von Brandis ) the 24th Brandenburgers were thrown into the fray again , still flushed with their triumph . |
| 10 | The East India Company later gained a monopoly to deal with the North Americans , but resentment caused the colonists to rebel against the traders and at the Boston Tea Party , the shipment of tea was thrown into the harbour by the rebels . |
| 11 | The bag of stones was thrown into the air . |
| 12 | It stands alongside the spot ( now marked by a bronze cross ) where Nepomuk was thrown into the river on the emperor 's orders ( see p. 215 ) . |
| 13 | Layforce was thrown into the action piecemeal and parts of it fought gallantly in Crete . |
| 14 | The high-jump stand was thrown into the garage and I entered the Grove Model School on a 20-week course . |
| 15 | Proceeding up a flooded stream flowing into the Indaw-gwi Lake with a heavy load of paddy ( rice ) seed , the boat capsized and Case was thrown into the water and drowned . |
| 16 | Tracey Morton , 29 , had to undergo five brain operations when she was thrown into the air and carried down the road by the motorbike in High Holborn , London , in August 1988 . |
| 17 | Bound hand and foot , she was thrown into the gave on the orders of her brother , the King of Navarre , watched , it is claimed , by a crowd of 3,000 , who will not have found it easy all to fit safely into this constricted spot . |
| 18 | ‘ You would n't have noticed if the Crahn Jewels was thrown into the kidneys . ’ |
| 19 | The motorcycle was thrown into the path of a car carrying four children at King Edward 's Avenue in Gloucester . |
| 20 | The couple were on a white water rafting expedition , like this one , when Steve was thrown into the fast-moving river and drowned . |
| 21 | The coroner , Nicholas Gardiner heard that Stephen , from Carteron in Oxfordshire was thrown into the river along with his two friends , when the raft was rocked by a plume of water . |
| 22 | The coroner , Nicholas Gardiner heard that Stephen , from Carteron in Oxfordshire was thrown into the river along with his two friends , when the raft was rocked by a plume of water . |
| 23 | Gerry Flynn , who still has not fully recovered from a hernia operation , was thrown into the fray against Ards , as was newcomer Fran Hitchcock for his first game , and they both marked the occasion with a goal . |
| 24 | Thomas Thompson was hit by a VW Golf on the A167 in North Yorkshire and was thrown into the opposite carriageway where another car drove over him . |