Example sentences of "carry off by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 2 | Jackie had no chance to give them his expert advice because the triangle sounded for the afternoon shift , and he was carried off by Biff to his office for the rest of the day and most of the night . |
| 3 | Little Horace Charles was carried off by pneumonia at the tender age of eight months , but Ernest William , Henry James and Herbert George were healthy young children crawling or toddling around those rooms in Wilmington Square . |
| 4 | But both he and the young lord had been carried off by smallpox , leaving this estranged son of the deceased youngest brother to inherit . |
| 5 | Such items do appear — carried off by survivors , or fished out of the sea by the lifeboats . |