Example sentences of "thrown into a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was thrown into a jungle of new jargon .
2 Did I ever tell you about the time I was thrown into a lake up in the — ’
3 Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home .
4 Something high in a tree clinked sharply , over and over again like a coin thrown into a metal dish .
5 First as a reporter for Du , and then on missions for Schweizer Spende , the Swiss relief organisation for victims of the war , he was thrown into a Europe of ruins and displaced persons .
6 For many years Tukaram 's enemy Rameshwar had incited the people against Tukaram and been instrumental in having Tukaram 's poems thrown into a river .
7 Joe Strummer played a bearded dishwasher in the mercenary army who gets thrown into a river in Alex Cox 's Walker .
8 Gould was thrown into a state of feverish excitement by his forays into the Australian bush , and , in a note written ‘ after dinner in a great hurry and with a bad pen ’ , he told Eliza : .
9 She might prefer to accept that rather than face the horror of the idea of her husband , the King of Scotland , being thrown into a pit among commoners . ’
10 ‘ Why may not a whole estate be thrown into a kind of garden ? ’ asked Joseph Addison in 1712 .
11 Just as stagebound as anything produced before 1939 is When We Are Married ( 1943 ) , in which three middle-aged couples are thrown into a frenzy upon discovering that the parson who married them all those years ago was n't qualified to do so .
12 He was then thrown into a frenzy by a letter announcing the impending arrival of Lando Medici , the richest of American patrons who always paid for ponies in readies out of a Gladstone bag .
13 And customers at the Hutchinsons ' shop have contributed more than £200 in loose change thrown into a collecting bucket on the counter .
14 On his arrival , Murad was thrown into a dungeon in Selimgarh , opposite the Red Fort .
15 In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty .
16 Blake had realized that the Doctor somehow always managed to find situations where his presence started events , causing ripple effects like a pebble thrown into a pool .
17 Is it really necessary for a person to leave a body behind , a body that must be buried in the ground or thrown into a fire ?
18 It seems that he was content to stay as a house guest of Sir John Popham for quite a while , though it has been suggested he was thrown into a debtor 's prison shortly after the event .
19 It was a clattering , perilous descent , during which the wheel rim became seriously loosened , and the kit thrown into a jumble .
20 It may work for some individuals of genius ; it works for young children ; it would definitely work if you were thrown into a situation where you had to communicate or die .
21 She was stripped naked and beaten with a cattle prod before being thrown into a cell full of excrement .
22 Richard , of Cheltenham , Glos , said : ‘ Jackie was extremely distressed because Vernon had been thrown into a cell with 100 other prisoners . ’
23 In April this year , he was grabbed by Banda 's goons , thrown into a cell without a window , where he could barely stand up , and ( much later ) charged with sedition .
24 Nkrumah was thrown into a cell along with ten others .
25 The Doctor was thrown into a cell , and left alone .
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