Example sentences of "and they [was/were] [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 2 | At the Franz Joseph he was greeted with great style and they were led into the terrace restaurant , to a table with a magnificent view over the whole of the Hochhauser valley , once more covered in snow . |
| 3 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 4 | And then Fael-Inis lifted the silver pipes to his lips , and there was a final burst of music , and the forest and the house and the Ireland of Tara 's Court vanished , and they were pulled into the Far Future . |
| 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 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |