Example sentences of "[verb] away by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lock itself seemed good , though wrenched away by the forced entry . |
| 2 | The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below . |
| 3 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 4 | Some of the energy given off is carried away by the electron , which is detectable , some by the neutrino , which is not . |
| 5 | She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality . |
| 6 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |
| 13 | Mind you do n't get carried away by the honour . |
| 14 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Carried away by the occasion , I demanded the right to pay for all that our guests could consume . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | Betty , perhaps carried away by the association of ideas , was talking about flatulence . |
| 21 | ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’ |
| 22 | The problem.solver gets carried away by the interest of the idea . |
| 23 | We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 29 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 30 | 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 . |