Example sentences of "[verb] away by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 2 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 3 | The policeman 's dog ( breed unidentified in Flaubert 's version ) was n't carried away by a torrent ; it just drowned in deep water . |
| 4 | Patients who cost a lot might be turned away by a GP . |
| 5 | His humiliation and fear were washed away by a tide of anger , at this open display of contempt . |
| 6 | African wind brings from the east was gone , washed away by a rainstorm during the night . |
| 7 | This is because the adjacent peat , as it is drained and dried out , wastes away by a process of oxidation on exposure to the atmosphere . |
| 8 | Nothing if not bold , Welles opens with a funeral procession in which the bodies of Othello and Desdemona are borne away by a line of figures dramatically silhouetted against a pale sky , while Iago is led away in chains to be hoist aloft in a metal cage . |
| 9 | The cross was constructed specially and came off the church roof with Crawford as he was winched away by a Wessex helicopter . |
| 10 | The dog was pulled away by a neighbour and locked into a garage . |
| 11 | In the early eighteenth century Rudyerd was in business as a silk mercer in Ludgate Hill , London , when he was engaged by Captain John Lovel or Lovet , the lessee , to act as ‘ architect and surveyor ’ for a lighthouse on the Eddystone reef near Plymouth , to replace the one built by Henry Winstanley [ q.v. ] , which had been swept away by a storm in 1703 after only five years . |
| 12 | The greatest deprivation was German sausage , made more intense for one boy who had brought a whole salami all the way from Vienna only to have it thrown away by a Dovercourt helper ‘ because it did n't smell right ’ . |
| 13 | I prevailed with the gaoler ( the sheriff denying me ) to take some of the seamen that I thought most dangerous [ i.e. the likeliest to try to escape ] a week ago , and , notwithstanding the strength of the place , from a turret … four men slipped away by a cord in a minute … |
| 14 | We stop at a war memorial for what guitarist Graham Lambert ironically calls ‘ a photo opportunity ’ , only to be chased away by a jobsworth demanding a permit , and pause at a sculpture dedicated to the Jews that died in World War 2 , one of those chilling reminders that provide a spot of scary realism in every fantasy city . |
| 15 | A dark cloud rose from Carey 's head and was swatted away by a wave ; it made a little slick that thinned and trailed out to sea . |
| 16 | For a band that was formed because four teenagers were blown away by a Wedding Present gig in Oxford they still have a lot to learn from their masters . |
| 17 | After Books I and II , Satan 's magnificence is chipped away by a process of degradation . |
| 18 | The numbness was inched away by a mixture of anger and sorrow . |