Example sentences of "be [verb] into the sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of explosions on Dec. 19 , 1989 , on board an Iranian supertanker , the Kharg-5 , carrying 285,000 tonnes of crude oil , had caused 70,000 tonnes of its load to be discharged into the sea some 500 km north of the ( Spanish ) Canary Islands . |
| 2 | The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica . |
| 3 | The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica . |
| 4 | According to an article in the paper 's journal , the Fascist Gazette , communists were ‘ wild beasts ’ whose ‘ hell 's spawn ’ should be pushed into the sea . |
| 5 | Should an enemy ever bomb the High Dam , Egypt would be washed into the sea by the very waters which have created it . |
| 6 | The mountain may be cast into the sea . |
| 7 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 8 | Plans are also afoot to ensure the discharge of highly saline drainage water , via large outfall drains , into the lower reaches of the Indus whence it can be flushed into the sea in the flooding season ; and to divert some of the saline water to evaporation lakes in nearby desert areas so that salt can be removed . |
| 9 | He added that the public fishery should benefit from the spatfall ( the shellfish spawn ) which would be released into the sea from the ranched scallops . |