Example sentences of "[verb] away by [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lock itself seemed good , though wrenched away by the forced entry . |
| 2 | The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below . |
| 3 | The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began . |
| 4 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 5 | Under duress from external events , she practised collective Cabinet government in something approaching the traditional form , though David Howell , at that time Secretary of State for Transport , cautions against being carried away by the collective theme : |
| 6 | We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority . |
| 7 | You need to pace yourself , so that you do not get carried away by the never-ending tasks that could fill your day with frenetic activity . |
| 8 | When an insect moults , the dorsal arms of the tentorium are largely dissolved away by the moulting fluid , the tentorium splits medially , much of the central body is dissolved and the remainder is pulled out as four separate pieces , one from each tentorial pit ( Sharplin , 1965 ) . |
| 9 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 10 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 11 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 12 | An old man , flab hoisted by plastiskin into the semblance of youthful buttocks and belly , strolled past in a scanty g-string but the game was given away by the static pads of fake muscle that did n't even twitch as he walked . |
| 13 | He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman . |
| 14 | This account had it that de Castelnau was first turned away by the orderly officer , saying that on no account was the Commander-in-Chief to be disturbed . |
| 15 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 16 | The existence of the photographs , all the sordid aspects of the man 's life were rinsed away by the formalized prose . |
| 17 | I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " . |
| 18 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 19 | A special unit set up by the Government has now traced more than half the cash which was spirited away by the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 20 | There were fewer beggars under the arcades , perhaps scared away by the patrolling police , and by the awe-inspiring Civil Guards in their black-lacquered headgear and solemnly swinging capes . |
| 21 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 22 | The kernel of truth in this is almost washed away by the wishful thinking . |
| 23 | ‘ I know it 's a cliche , ’ she said , standing with David 's hand in the crook of her arm , ‘ but it really does look as though it were floating , as though it might be washed away by the next tide . ’ |
| 24 | Any doubts about the wisdom of combining the worlds of Shakespearean tragedy and forensic psychiatry appear to have been blasted away by the recent performances of King Lear , Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet in the special hospital by actors from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 25 | One more failure on her part ; one more life lost ; one more friend pulled away by the black tide . |
| 26 | As a child he was haunted by the absent presence of a dead sister stolen away by the death-dealing forces of an unfathomable universe . |
| 27 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 28 | They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi . |
| 29 | Grooms came at once , and briskly , to take the bridles , and a spruce page came bounding down the steps from the hall door to greet the newcomers and discover their business here , but he was waved away by an older steward who had emerged from the stables . |
| 30 | All this was swept away by a new principle which was introduced in the early part of the nineteenth century , namely , that a local authority could not carry out any function unless strictly authorised by statute . |