Example sentences of "[verb] away by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |
| 5 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 6 | Carried away by the occasion , I demanded the right to pay for all that our guests could consume . |
| 7 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 8 | Some of the energy given off is carried away by the electron , which is detectable , some by the neutrino , which is not . |
| 9 | Mind you do n't get carried away by the honour . |
| 10 | " 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Printers and Finishers Ltd v Holloway [ 1964 ] 3 All ER 731 Cross J made a distinction between the two concepts of remembering something and conscious memorising : " The mere fact that the confidential information is not embodied in a document but is carried away by the employee in his head is not … of itself a reason against the granting of an injunction to prevent its use or disclosure by him " . |
| 13 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 14 | The problem.solver gets carried away by the interest of the idea . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality . |
| 17 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 18 | Betty , perhaps carried away by the association of ideas , was talking about flatulence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But the fact that a usually narrow portion of beach is preserved is not an argument against modern erosion by the sea unless there is not even a minor cliff at present high tide level , as there is no means of telling h , ow wide a strip of raised beach has been eroded away by the sea . |
| 25 | were eased away by the warmth of morning . |
| 26 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 27 | During the day , a well-camouflaged animal may escape the eyes of a snake , but it will be given away by the halo of its infra-red radiation . |
| 28 | Martha and Ann were orphans , and were to be given away by the lord of the manor . |
| 29 | Property passing on a death is defined in the Finance Act 1894 , as amended by the Finance Act 1969 , and includes : property owned absolutely by the deceased , property given away by the deceased within seven years of death , and property in which the deceased owned a limited interest within seven years of his death . |
| 30 | Grass road verges have almost vanished , whittled away by the volume of traffic and the inexorable weight of tractor wheels . |