Example sentences of "carry [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 32 | Trainer Gilpin echoed that view when claiming after the race that Dillon had disobeyed his instructions — ‘ No doubt he was carried away by the excitement . ’ |
| 33 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 34 | It seems that , carried away by the feverish and bellicose atmosphere which was evident both on the streets of Paris and in the Assembly , Ollivier and Gramont strayed from the prepared text , firm but non-provocative in tone , and proceeded to make its content more aggressive . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 : |
| 37 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |
| 38 | Mind you do n't get carried away by the honour . |
| 39 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 40 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 41 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 42 | Carried away by the occasion , I demanded the right to pay for all that our guests could consume . |
| 43 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
| 44 | " It being represented to this meeting that part of the Church yard of Kilnaughtan , facing the South E : or the sea is likely to be carried away by the Blowing of Sand and that several Coffins have been exposed " the meeting appoints a Committee to obtain any estimate for banking . |
| 45 | Betty , perhaps carried away by the association of ideas , was talking about flatulence . |
| 46 | ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’ |
| 47 | The problem.solver gets carried away by the interest of the idea . |
| 48 | We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority . |
| 49 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 50 | He had almost forgotten his previous dislike of Dickens , carried away by the opportunities for rhetoric that the Great Man was so unexpectedly granting him . |
| 51 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 52 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 53 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 54 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | In Printers and Finishers Ltd v Holloway [ 1964 ] 3 All ER 731 Cross J made a distinction between the two concepts of remembering something and conscious memorising : " The mere fact that the confidential information is not embodied in a document but is carried away by the employee in his head is not … of itself a reason against the granting of an injunction to prevent its use or disclosure by him " . |
| 57 | Members of the group known as JADE , who come from the UK and Japan as well as Germany , have analysed the way in which momentum and energy are carried away from the collision by particles in the jets ( DESY preprint 82–086 ) . |
| 58 | Byrne was carried away from the ring unconscious and died three days later without coming out of his coma . |
| 59 | In most neurons impulses are received by numerous short fibres called dendrites and carried away from the cell by a single long fibre called an axon . |
| 60 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |