Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] away as " in BNC.

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1 But she 's getting carried away with this , though her friends are good enough but they 're all getting carried away as you would say with a bad crowd .
2 We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded .
3 Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children .
4 These items are kept locked away as essences can make a lethal cocktail and yeast can be used to make hooch , an illicit drink .
5 Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire .
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