Example sentences of "[vb pp] away [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents .
2 I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion .
3 Cole ( 1986 ) has investigated twelve high-use and twelve low-use campsites located away from the main tourist access routes in three desert vegetation types consisting of desert scrub , catclaw ( Acacia greggi ) and piñon-juniper ( Pinus edulie–Juniperus osteosperma ) communities .
4 The lock itself seemed good , though wrenched away by the forced entry .
5 The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below .
6 With fine forceps , the entire AER was teased away from the left limb and discarded , causing no obvious damage to underlying mesenchyme .
7 So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise .
8 Carried away on a rushing tide of dark enchantment , she quivered as his tongue caressed her skin , his mouth feather-light as it brushed enticingly , back and forth , over her swollen nipples .
9 She tried to fight him , but her effort was half-hearted as she found herself carried away on an irresistible tide of longing .
10 But Clive Lawton , head of educational services , said there was still a long way to go , and he warned against being carried away with a good idea if it were to impoverish the rest of the scheme .
11 I for one did not get carried away with the Triple Crown hype after the ‘ splendour ’ of the victory over Wales ( for which your publication was equally responsible ) .
12 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 .
13 It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there .
14 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 :
15 We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority .
16 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 .
17 A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens .
18 The muse 's intervention occurs after Astrophil appears to be carried away in a violent frenzy , unable to find a fit language to achieve his ends .
19 He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria .
20 This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion .
21 We 've , we 've kind of shied away from the whole thing about image and about fat
22 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 ) .
23 Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ?
24 The main group of demonstrators had broken away from an authorized rally in a nearby square called by the Revolution Party ( Christian Democratic ) .
25 The mould is broken away from the hardened bronze , the ends of the tie-rods sawn off , faults patched and the surface cleaned ; and though much fine detail was completed in the model , more can be chiselled on the cold bronze .
26 The province 's four main tournament organisations have broken away from the controlling Northern Ireland Karate Board and have now formed a rival umbrella group of their own .
27 The problem , however , was that not enough of the gaseous nebula could in fact have broken away from the embryonic sun , as later generations of astronomers were quick to point out .
28 On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) .
29 Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy .
30 From the tip of the headland and for some way out to sea the waves were breaking white against half-submerged fangs and stacks of rock that had in time past broken away from the main cliffs .
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