Example sentences of "away by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
3 | I find that the conditions prevailing at the time when the reduction in rent was made , had completely passed away by the early months of 1945 . |
4 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Standing by the old timber ponds at Clapton , another of his childhood swimming holes , he had felt his tension being blown away by the eternal winds of the Severn . |
9 | Soon the intolerable mysteries of Mediterranean life would be swept away by the electronic wonders of real time and random access for all . |
10 | We live , write and speak today in a world of free and democratized languages ; the complex and multilevelled hierarchy of discourses , forms , images , styles that used to permeate the entire system of official language and official consciousness was swept away by the linguistic revolutions of the Renaissance … . |