Example sentences of "being [vb pp] along by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now she was being carried along by the impetus of those two decisions . |
| 2 | The expansion of the surface was what was causing the pebbles to move away from hers they were being carried along by the movement of the sheet . |
| 3 | Whether we take Lorentz 's view that the masses were bored and ready to be distracted or Macpherson 's notion that they had sensed that the movies were at least hinting at new possibilities , it is difficult to avoid being swept along by the romance of those early days . |
| 4 | The air is dangerously alive with the objects — pieces of tin , small stones , branches , tiles — being hurled along by the wind . |
| 5 | Well might a poem of that time depict the good ship of state being blown along by the prayers filling its sails . |